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Old 24th Feb 2013, 21:27
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So far nobody's mentioned the tailplane.
Good point.

The book I mentioned also has pitch-coefficients vs AoA. The (typically nose down) pitching moment of the wing needs to be balanced by a tail-plane downforce, or some "standard" CoG position, in addition to any movable CoG issues.

But this down-force has to be balanced by extra lift at the wing, at high AoAs this leads to a lot of extra induced drag, and so it all goes on....

An aeroplane is a lot more than a wing.
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