Eh?
Upward deflection (ie TE moving upwards) will increase the negative lift, not
decrease
it.
Duncan McFadyean
On Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:26 PM, Tom & Cathy Friedland
[SMTP:tfriedland@attbi.com]
wrote:
> Duncan
>
> Your symmetrical loading theory is probably erroneous. The stabilator is
> normally loaded downward (negative lift) when it is in a neutral position.
> Therefore, it will take less downward deflection to reach the critical
> (breaking) point. Upward deflection (12 degrees) gets to overcome the
> downward
> loading before it even starts to give positive lift loads as it deflects
> upward.
>
> Regards
>
> Tom Friedland A079
>
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