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Old 19th August 2006 | 14:25
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FE Hoppy
 
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Quite useful to join the model aircraft ranks to sort out MAC

Cornish beware.
What model makers refer to as MAC is NOT MAC it is the mean geometric chord. This does not take into acount changes in profile or twist and is very very crude. Mac is the chord of an imaginary straight wing with the same area and AERODYNAMIC FORCE VECTORS as the aeroplanes swept wing.
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