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PT New Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 22 Location: Seattle Wash. Joined: Jan 20^th, 2019	Re: question about wing shape and size 16" Hurricane Reply #4 - Jan 25^th, 2019 at 7:20pm	Print Post
	Sky9pilot wrote on Jan 25^th, 2019 at 5:50pm: I believe the target ratio of stab area to wing area is 20% to 25% IIRC. That's stab 20% to 25% of wing area. Tom Thanks Tom


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Sky9pilot Administrator Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 12998 Location: Kelso, WA 98626 USA Joined: Jan 9^th, 2010	Re: question about wing shape and size 16" Hurricane Reply #3 - Jan 25^th, 2019 at 5:50pm	Print Post
	I believe the target ratio of stab area to wing area is 20% to 25% IIRC. That's stab 20% to 25% of wing area. Tom

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PT New Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 22 Location: Seattle Wash. Joined: Jan 20^th, 2019	Re: question about wing shape and size 16" Hurricane Reply #2 - Jan 25^th, 2019 at 5:43pm	Print Post
	pb... once I got it apart, I decided to rebuild from F3 out with new wood. What is the surface area ratio of wing to stab? Thanks Pat

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pb_guy 5 Star Member Offline So I'm just a kid at heart. Posts: 2067 Location: Youbou, BC, Vancouver Island Joined: Oct 15^th, 2014	Re: question about wing shape and size 16" Hurricane Reply #1 - Jan 25^th, 2019 at 3:45pm	Print Post
	Your wing is tapered. Adding length to the wing by adding another bay and additional rib will not add enough area to bother with. If you wanted to trim some of the fat off of the wing, you could trim back the leading and trailing edges to ~ 1/8" to 3/16". If you are going wheels up, I would eliminate the wood supporting the landing gear. Those changes should reduce your wing weight by about a third. If you want to increase the wing area, you could rebuild the trailing edge about 1/2" back of where it currently is, but any more than that and your stabilizer would probably be too small, or have to be enlarged. If you want to make a larger wing area, it would be easier to rebuild the entire wing and then you could control the weight of the wood, and its dimensions. Just my own opinions, YMMV. ian BTW, I have that Trojan kit as well. I was thinking of modifying it into a YAT 28E.


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PT New Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 22 Location: Seattle Wash. Joined: Jan 20^th, 2019	question about wing shape and size 16" Hurricane Jan 25^th, 2019 at 2:57pm	Print Post
	I took apart my Guillows Huricane built out of the box, it was a brick. I took almost 3 gr. out of the fuse, will work on the wing next. My question is wouldn't adding some area to the wing aid the "glider" portion of the flight. I'm not concerned about true scale. I'm thinking about a wing shape like the trojan.

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