Datum: LE of wing @ root

<aside> 💡 Results 8.22.24 keep all surface geometries from original glider, shift them to new locations LE of hstab starts 0.9m away from LE of main wing

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Empennage Constraints

Empennage Definitions

Airfoil used: NACA 0012

no angle of incidence needed for the htail.

Vstab Hstab
Taper Ratio 0.4703 0.5259
Aspect Ratio 1.8137 5.2922
original area 0.0564604 0.0759532
(original volume coeff)

vstab reference.

vstab reference.

hstab reference.

hstab reference.

Wing Definitions

wing reference.

wing reference.

Main Wing datum (x, y, z) = (0, 0, 0)
Airfoil: HQ3.0-11

	inboard section: span = 1.150, LE sweep = 0, dihedral = 0
	root chord: 0.229
		(Xle, Yle, Zle) = (0, 0, 0)
		Ainc: 2
	tip chord: 0.1834
		(Xle, Yle, Zle) = (0, 1.150, 0) 
		Ainc: 2
	outboard section: span (geometric) = 0.730, LE sweep = 0, dihedral = 2 deg.
	tip chord: 0.1058
		(Xle, Yle, Zle) = (0, 0.73*cos(2deg), 0.73*sin(2deg))
		Ainc: 1.25
		
CG lower bound 30% root chord 0.0687m
CG upper bound 35% root chord 0.08015m

target CG to be at exactly 35% chord, location of main wing max thickness = 8cm ****from datum.

(tolerance -1 + 0 cm)

Static Margin (purely geometric)

MAC: 0.19038m