PrfctChaos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:05 pm
I did something similar. Added this, call it a "beavertail", onto the end of the mono fusilage. ...
Well, even if I think the shape of a beaver tail primarly fulfills the demand to fit into beavers home
and not to move fast or with low drag ...
PrfctChaos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:05 pm
Basically training wheel so that i can get footswitches sorted on the mono. ...
... in this mean I can definitely support it.
As having a convertible Mono to Stabifoil myself I also switched inbetween a lot, I also think this is something that could become interesting as entrance door for many or as said for training foot switch. And also not sure if it will be better with an extra part of elongated fuselage or just keeping short fuselage as also foilfun has done it, even if having lower performance in the short fuselage version.
@vol:
liked your first draft more as on a mono you always have that short fuselage end you have to reduce diameter to zero and why not by adding a tiny short stabi as your fist draft.
I think even if your wider span has the potential to have lower drag than a low AR beaver tail, when having it fixed even with a short fuselage it keeps all disadvantages of a stabi foil, what it is. Or is it your goal to cut the stabi down step by step?
Monofoiling to me has never been to build a short fuselage stabifoil which is more difficult to ride than a normal long one while keeping most other disadvantages.
Monofoiling to me very first is low drag of a pure single wing and the rest of the advantages, as feel of a pure free flying wing unblocked by a stabi, just comes on top.
I once said a monofoil diserves a cripple bonus when talking about boosting hight.
Apart from boosting today I would say:
It is stabifoils that feel like walking with a cane, blocking free natural movement and most of the abilities of a pure single wing.
My prediction for 2020 ..
.. time is ready and I see many foilers cutting of their stabis liberating their foils.