I dont have it with me, but basically all sharp edges now have about 2mm instead of less than 1mmm and are rounded.
Sand your trailing edges
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
Performance... But i think its possible to make profile which will be optimized for blunt TE /squared one/. It will be next step - now we have almost all we desire from performance and handling POV, so what we want next is same performance but less knife like 
Also no sharp edges.
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
Many thanks! One more questionPedro Marcos wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:45 amI dont have it with me, but basically all sharp edges now have about 2mm instead of less than 1mmm and are rounded.
Rounded edges of wing or rounded TE itself?
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
Safe, slow, draggy.
Square trailing edge is good for speed and reducing vibration. Sharp is slow and noisy, rounded is slow and ??noisy?
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
I just sanded my trailing edges and noticed no loss in performance, and no noise/resonance.
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
I really don't understand: if there is no performance loss and everything becomes quieter and safer, how come manufacturers don't make TEs blunt/sanded on the factory?
what gives?
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
"noticed no loss in performance" = there can be, and probably is some loss but it is so minor he didn't notice it.
I have also sanded trailing edge of my rl-boards foil mast and "I feed much safer now"
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
I believe that in low to medium aspect wings you can sand almost all you want that the performance loss will be minimal. On race wings not really.
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Re: Sand your trailing edges
That's why i was specific in the use of "notice" word. As I'm not a racer looking for the ultimate performance, the way it rides now is good enough for me, but there may be a loss of performance, though not major.
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