Cheers SW.
Depends on where you are... Stockholm is really nice during the summer months but it gets really grey and horrible during winter. The Great North is quite nice during both seasons but everything is alot slower up there. Dunno why really but it's like the Twighlight zone all the time...
My conclusion for the time being is that a spoiler intended to depleat speed only should be at the rear. This should have the effect of not destroying so much lift, simply creating huge amounts of formdrag.
A liftdumper or ground spoiler ought to be placed further forward to create a turbulent flow over a larger surface. But when I think of it, the sailplanes that I sometime fly have their spoilers around the first third of the wing and this works well. Why would I want a spoiler on the aft part? I can't really find a reason for it now, except if I was to design the wing using flightspoilers for lateral controll. Am I getting the picture now?
keep your thoughts coming!
cheers/lns
[ 28 November 2001: Message edited by: low n' slow ]
[ 28 November 2001: Message edited by: low n' slow ]