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- From: P.J.Plane@massey.ac.nz (Philip Plane)
- Subject: Re: Want information of Foward swept wing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.020135.19335@massey.ac.nz>
- Sender: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
- Organization: School of Maths & Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
- References: <1993Jan26.135811@IASTATE.EDU> <1993Jan27.225152@IASTATE.EDU> <1k91qjINN7fp@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:01:35 GMT
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- In article <1k91qjINN7fp@bigboote.WPI.EDU> chadwemy@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chad Barret Wemyss) writes:
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- >Another advantage of Forward-Swept Wings (FSW) is that it makes the aircraft
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- An advantage that no-one has mentioned is that in very light aricraft forward
- swept wings are used to reduce the effect of crew weight on the C of G, allowing
- a wider range of crew weights. Many two seat gliders demonstrate this.
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- Glider pilots have no visible means of support
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