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Modding wings for level flight


molo

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I've been messing around with wings a bit, trying to find something that can approximate what I expect of a power-off glide. Right now I'm tweaking the space-shuttle-shaped winglet (wing01) and I've found some numbers that seem to work fairly well:

[tt]

// --- standard part parameters ---

angularDrag = 2

// --- winglet parameters ---

dragCoeff = 0.1

deflectionLiftCoeff = 1.5

[/tt]

This with a single fuel tank and a liquid engine is fairly controllable. I'm also using the orbiter tail. The placement of the wings is SUPER tweaky as center of gravity has a lot to do with controllability, it seems.

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