clolsonus
Well-known member
I thought I would toss this out here to see if there is any interest or feedback or thoughts or whatever. Perhaps there won't be and that's ok too.
I made a little foam board wing design tool to assist scratch builders or kit-bashers. You input basic dimensions like chord, span, sweep, taper, and dihedral angle, and it outputs basic dimensions and fold lines along with full size (SVG) plans.
For swept/tapered wings it computes the correct spar taper and folds. It enables designing multi-segmented swept/tapered wings.
I wrote up the code to do this one day when I wanted to create double tapered wing tips for a glider wing and my attempt to just manually do it was a complete disaster ... I decided to resort to math.
Here is the link (may be temporary for anyone reading this message 10 years from now):
http://curt.flightgear.org:8080/ftwing/
The input form looks like this:
And the output looks like this:
And then at the very bottom of the generated plans area are links to download an SVG version of the wing and spar plans. You can cut out the other half of the wing by flipping the plans over. If you want to add ailerons, flaps, or elevons, then you could pretty quickly measures those out and cut those in manually.
One of these days I want to use this to build some sort of sculpted blended body wing design, but lately life and work and family have been a real drain on my hobby time!
I'm hoping to gauge if I should just leave it as is and use it for my own projects or put more time into cleaning things up and potentially adding more future features.
Thanks!
I made a little foam board wing design tool to assist scratch builders or kit-bashers. You input basic dimensions like chord, span, sweep, taper, and dihedral angle, and it outputs basic dimensions and fold lines along with full size (SVG) plans.
For swept/tapered wings it computes the correct spar taper and folds. It enables designing multi-segmented swept/tapered wings.
I wrote up the code to do this one day when I wanted to create double tapered wing tips for a glider wing and my attempt to just manually do it was a complete disaster ... I decided to resort to math.
Here is the link (may be temporary for anyone reading this message 10 years from now):
http://curt.flightgear.org:8080/ftwing/
The input form looks like this:
And the output looks like this:
And then at the very bottom of the generated plans area are links to download an SVG version of the wing and spar plans. You can cut out the other half of the wing by flipping the plans over. If you want to add ailerons, flaps, or elevons, then you could pretty quickly measures those out and cut those in manually.
One of these days I want to use this to build some sort of sculpted blended body wing design, but lately life and work and family have been a real drain on my hobby time!
I'm hoping to gauge if I should just leave it as is and use it for my own projects or put more time into cleaning things up and potentially adding more future features.
Thanks!
