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Old 5th November 2005 | 03:25
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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I wonder if the delay in stall onset is based purely on wind tunnel data; I suspect so. In which case one question would be:

is the stall angle in a tunnel with sound effects higher or lower than that for the same aerofoil at full scale?

I'm wondering if it's a Reynolds number dependent phenomenom. (Im never sure how to stop spelling that word!). In which case it could be akin to transition strips, which help on a tunnel model sometimes but don't get the chance to be effective at full scale.
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