Wing Divergence
 

Hi everyone,

I'm having some trouble trying to understand divergence and sweeping the wings forward and back (I think that's where my lack of understanding is....)

Anyway, so far, I know that divergence speed is the speed at which basically the aircraft is no longer statically stable, and tends to deform leading to structural failure.

If you were to sweep the wings forward, this is going to decrease the divergence speed. Does this mean that it's good or bad for divergence though?

My notes say that decreasing divergence speed equates to good for divergence with swept forward wings, but i'm not sure if this is correct.

Would anybody be able to explain what i'm missing out on? And also, how does flutter come into it?

Thanks heaps for any responses. Hopefully what i've asked makes sense....

For something written over half a century ago....

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