PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Anhedral Tail Planes
View Single Post
Old 13th Dec 2005, 08:47
  #4 (permalink)  
aztruck
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: uk
Posts: 247
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
While on the subject of anhedral, can anyone put me out of my misery regarding why all of the Russian rear engined airliners have a pronounced anhedral on the wings.
Their western clones(727,VC10 etc) certainly didnt have this feature.
The only reason I can come up with is that the fin is larger creating a tendency to overwhelm the rolling element of the flight controls, so anhedral instability was the quick fix??
aztruck is offline