RULES OF THUMB - Comments welcome - Adverse aileron drag (Yaw) - TopicsExpress



          

RULES OF THUMB - Comments welcome - Adverse aileron drag (Yaw) which you do get on the Harvard....But what is it? - In a nut shell.... The relatively slower airflow under the wing is more dense than the faster moving airflow over the wing, so the down-going aileron moving into the denser air, generates more drag than the up-going aileron. In addition, the up-going aileron is moving into a more streamlined position than the down-going aileron. The result is asymmetric drag known as adverse aileron drag, which produces a yawing moment that acts in the opposite sense to the bank angle. To counteract adverse drag, the up-going aileron may be designed to deflect further into the airflow than the down-going aileron. Such a design feature is termed differential aileron......
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:25:57 +0000

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