First published in Model Airplane News, these acclaimed articles by Andy Lennon help us understand aerodynamics and design basics -- everything from simple drag reduction techniques to advanced canard design. Includes concrete guidance and many practical examples.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent guide to the Intermediate or Advanced designer!,
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This review is from: Basics of R/C Model Aircraft Design: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models (Paperback)
This book is an excellent, time-tested guide to designing radio controlled model aircraft. Mr.Lennon explains everything in a confident and crisp tone. But most people just starting out in designing might find this book a little intimidating owing to the large number of math-like graphs and formulas right from page one. But if you are willing to persevere in your interest to design extremely reliable R/C modelled aircrafts then you should definitely read this book/guide. Thanks.
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This review is from: Basics of R/C Model Aircraft Design: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models (Paperback)
This book is very good R/C airplane designers guide. However, covering so many topics it could use some more pages and better organisation (the graphs are small and scattered trough the book in disorganized manner making them difficult to follow while reading explanations). Looking forward to next edition!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Crammed with disjoint information yet informative.,
By "coltranian" (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Basics of R/C Model Aircraft Design: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models: Practical Techniques for Building Better Models (Paperback)
Though overall a very useful book, this book seems to be a somewhat disjoint conglomeration of various articles about aircraft design that perhaps were once published in a magazine. There is no soft introduction for the beginner - be prepared to be inundated with a slew of graphs, equations and very dense writing that will demand some qualitative understanding of basic aerodynamics. (I would personally recomment _Understanding Flight_ by David Anderson and Scott Eberhardt, which is not very mathematical and quite easy to understand for a novice like myself.) The fact that these disjoint chapters don't flow together is a bit annoying, but on the other hand it is quite pleasant to have such a wide array of specific information in such a portable book. The section on reading airfoil charts is terse and yet intelligible. Be warned: if you're not familiar with the basics, you might get lost quickly and have to reference another text, as did I. If you're just a little dusty, however, there will be a very short review. (For example: how is angle of attack different than incidence, and how do these two things relate to both cambered and symmetrical airfoils? What causes a pitching moment?)There is some discussion about exotic designs (three airfoil, canard, tailless and delta-wing, NASA safe wing, float design, etc.) although without much in-depth discussion about theory (for example, the NASA Safe Wing chapter described mostly about the history, advantages and characteristics of this device but very little about the theory or even implementation in a new design.) The author clearly tried to cover a lot of topics in a small amount of space, thus I would rate it more vast than in-depth. Overall a good book with many examples (mostly from the author's own designs). Very useful, with an appendix of characteristics for the airfoils and models used in examples.
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The vertical line, on the left, provides the C1, positive above and negative below the horizontal line. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model aircraft design, tail download, hump trim, airfoil plot, airfoil pitching moment, balsa skins, spiral stability, airfoil selection, vertical tail area, strip ailerons, downwash angle, static margin, tail incidence, high thrust line, tailless airplane, balsa sheet, propeller selection, static rpm, wake displacement, aerodynamic center, slotted flaps, removable portion, stalling angle, gentle stall, tail angle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Snowy Owl, Model Airplane News, Construction Designs, Wild Goose, Fox Eagle, Sea Loon, Stressed Skin Design, Technical Note, Roll Control Design, Area B-less, Dieter Althaus, Horizontal Tail Design, John Roncz, Landing Gear Design, Richard Eppler, The T-tail, Understanding Airfoils, Wing Loading Design New!
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The vertical line, on the left, provides the C1, positive above and negative below the horizontal line. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model aircraft design, tail download, hump trim, airfoil plot, airfoil pitching moment, balsa skins, spiral stability, airfoil selection, vertical tail area, strip ailerons, downwash angle, static margin, tail incidence, high thrust line, tailless airplane, balsa sheet, propeller selection, static rpm, wake displacement, aerodynamic center, slotted flaps, removable portion, stalling angle, gentle stall, tail angle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Snowy Owl, Model Airplane News, Construction Designs, Wild Goose, Fox Eagle, Sea Loon, Stressed Skin Design, Technical Note, Roll Control Design, Area B-less, Dieter Althaus, Horizontal Tail Design, John Roncz, Landing Gear Design, Richard Eppler, The T-tail, Understanding Airfoils, Wing Loading Design New!
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- Airfoil Design and Data by Richard Eppler on page 1, and page 12
- Model Aircraft Aerodynamics by Martin Simons on page 12
- DESIGN OF THE AEROPLANE by Stinton on page 43
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