Olin
Would you share the name of the book that you found useful
for aerodynamics ?

Gus


> On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
>
>
> I'm doing something like this for the fun of it right now on the side.
> Maybe I'll get back to it this weekend.  I've always been interested  
> in
> automated flight control.  I'm trying to make something glide nicely  
> that
> would be unstable without active control.  I did read up on  
> aerodynamics for
> that purpose since that's not the part I'm interested in developing  
> on my
> own.  In the process I found that most aerodynamics texts are  
> rubbish or
> can't see the concepts for the forest of equations.  I finally found  
> a great
> book that didn't contradict the basic physics that I do know and that
> introduces concepts intuitively, then uses equations to back up the  
> details.
> That's how all books should be written.
>
> In case anyone is interested, my little project is a inherently  
> unstable
> flying wing.  Just for the challenge of it, I'm not allowing any  
> vertical
> surfaces.  Everything is being done with 4 control surfaces on the  
> trailing
> edge of the wing.  There are 3 degrees of freedom to control.  This  
> can be
> done with 3 control surfaces if they can be arranged arbitrarily.  I'm
> pretty sure, but haven't actually rigorously proven, that if the  
> control
> surfaces are all in the same plane that it takes 4 of them.
>

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