flying grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:04 am
You can set up high AR foil to decrease both -max speed and drag at low speed.
Just increase by the same amount AoA of both wings - front and rear. Just 2-4 deg is enough.
Useful for begginers and waveriders.
I dont understand this - can you explain ?
When you change AOA on both wings you will change the fuselage "flow" direction so it might have a tad less drag (or more, depending on the specific design) at low speeds yes.
And reverse - more (fuselage) drag at higher speeds
But your overall lift is not bigger, in fact precisely the same, thus you can not ride slower.
You get the board pointing 2-4 degrees more "down" with the nose, which might give you a placebo effect so you will try to keep it horisontal thus ride closer to or above the stall point, but I dont assume this is your target ?
PF