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Has anyone else experienced this?

51.7k ZeroWithSlashedO  1.7 years ago

So. It has occured to me that I apparently have a curse.

Anytime, I make a plane with Anhedral wings and by angleing it, it gets weird and buggy physics.

For some reason, SP really likes to mess around when I make Anhedral wings, by saying: "f##k you in particular", and decided to give enormous assymetric lift.

I have made a forum post about this once. It did this multiple times. On my Su-25K, my cancelled T-2, and now, on my Dolphin.

Also, yes, I'm making a Dolphin (in latin). If you know, you know.

With that said, has anyone else experienced this too, or is this just a me thing?

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    @ReinMcDeer @GorillaGuerrilla
    Nevermind. Found the reason why it does that.
    Anhedral wings are weird.

    Pinned 1.6 years ago
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    when u say angle it, do you mean in the roll axis or the pitch axis.
    actually this is totally the point of having an anhedral wing especially when u are rolling. with respect to the airflow that one wing parallel to the ground have in full effect of lift against the gravity, while the lowered wing has less lift with respect to gravity. this is why the early to pre-fly by wire period planes like f-4, harrier and f-16 all have some lifting surfaces in anhedreal configuration to promote agility, and are famous for relatively viffy and flipply moves.
    u can try promoting the anhedral lifting surface to mount higher than the plane this will kind of balance the plane with pendulum effect and the plane will be more usable. like a hang glider and harrier.

    1.6 years ago
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    @ReinMcDeer
    On one case, it does.
    I tried testing anhedrals (on my T-2) and putting the lift data acquired by the wings, separately, and the other part of the wing just, doesn't get enough lift, and because of that, it dutch rolled.

    Also, ok, cool

    1.7 years ago
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    85.8k ReinMcDeer

    Hmm... Not really. Anhedral wings are more unstable but it shouldn't be causing asymmetric lift.
    Also, you better plead the fifth because you just self-incriminated yourself. :/

    1.7 years ago