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Old 06-15-2018, 05:10 PM
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In flight, the most lift comes from the underpresure on top of the wing. Not covering the bottom half would cost around 20 or 30 percent of the lift, with these curved profiles. but the wing would still fly.
Full credit to the Wright brothers for knowing things like that. But then that's why their aircraft actually flew....
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Once again the versatility of paper and paper modelers astounds me...

Very cool.

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