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Wind-tunnel investigation of control-surface characteristics V - the use of a beveled trailing edge to reduce the hinge moment of a control surface

contributor authorNASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
date accessioned2017-09-04T16:28:06Z
date available2017-09-04T16:28:06Z
date copyright01/01/1942
date issued1942
identifier otherUEYYYDAAAAAAAAAA.pdf
identifier urihttps://yse.yabesh.ir/std/handle/yse/91293
description abstractWind-tunnel tests have been made to investigate the possibility of reducing the hinge moments of a control surface by beveling the trailing edge. The tests were made with a 9-percent-thick airfoil having a 30-percent-chord plain flap. A faired beveled shape, 5 percent of the airfoil chord in width and having a thickness of 2½ percent of the airfoil chord, was found to give approximately 50- percent reduction in the hinge moment caused by a given deflection of the flap and 80-percent reduction in the hinge moment due to the angle of attack of this airfoil for a wide range of angle. A blunter beveled portion of the same thickness gave overbalance and reversal of the floating tendency over a small angular range. Elliptical trailing-edge shapes were also tried but were found to be somewhat less effective than the shapes ending in an acute angle. A semicircular trailing edge produced only a slight change in the hinge moments but caused a drag increment much greater than that of an efficient beveled shape.
languageEnglish
titleNACA-WR-L-464num
titleWind-tunnel investigation of control-surface characteristics V - the use of a beveled trailing edge to reduce the hinge moment of a control surfaceen
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treeNASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):;1942
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