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Old 14th Feb 2015, 11:11
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n5296s I'd be very curious to see a wing without an upper surface, ghat could be used to test this. Maybe it's full of magnetic monopoles?
I did that experiment as a kid in ~1950 building models. Covering the top surface only, it flew more or less normally, cover the bottom surface only and it would not lift anything like as good. Level glide compared to 30deg dive.
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