First of all nice build thread!
About your questions the airfoil depends on wether your building a right handed plane or not. For the other side you would have a different airfoil and you would also need to put the servo horn on the other side. From the pictures your building a right handed plane.
And yes this has to do with the force at launch. But some DLGs also have a symmetrical airfoil on the tailfin, that really depends...
About the wire don't use kevlar wires or something use metal. If your using kevlar or some other cord you need to be carefull when it comes out of the tail you have to add some plastic tubing or else the carbon is cutting it.
A lot of ppl are using fishing rope (metal) for the wires. I'm not sure how it would be called in the us in germany it's "Flexonit Stahlvorfach 7x7" just google for it and maybe you find out what I mean.
But you can also use guitar strings! Thats what I am currently doing 0.09 oder 0.10 etc. guitar strings they are perfect. They also already have a noose!
And you don't have to immensively retrim the plane what you have to do when you are using some kevlar or whatever cords. The metal from the fishing oder guiatar strings does not care about temperature or moist.
About your questions the airfoil depends on wether your building a right handed plane or not. For the other side you would have a different airfoil and you would also need to put the servo horn on the other side. From the pictures your building a right handed plane.
And yes this has to do with the force at launch. But some DLGs also have a symmetrical airfoil on the tailfin, that really depends...
About the wire don't use kevlar wires or something use metal. If your using kevlar or some other cord you need to be carefull when it comes out of the tail you have to add some plastic tubing or else the carbon is cutting it.
A lot of ppl are using fishing rope (metal) for the wires. I'm not sure how it would be called in the us in germany it's "Flexonit Stahlvorfach 7x7" just google for it and maybe you find out what I mean.
But you can also use guitar strings! Thats what I am currently doing 0.09 oder 0.10 etc. guitar strings they are perfect. They also already have a noose!
And you don't have to immensively retrim the plane what you have to do when you are using some kevlar or whatever cords. The metal from the fishing oder guiatar strings does not care about temperature or moist.
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