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Chords on a swept-wing. In aeronautics, the chord is an imaginary straight line segment joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil cross section parallel to the direction of the airflow. The chord length is the distance between the trailing edge and the leading edge. [1] [2] The point on the leading edge used to define the main ...
Often, the chord line of the root of the wing is chosen as the reference line. Another choice is to use a horizontal line on the fuselage as the reference line (and also as the longitudinal axis). [2] Some authors [3] [4] do not use an arbitrary chord line but use the zero lift axis where, by definition, zero angle of attack corresponds to zero ...
Angle of incidence of an airplane wing on an airplane. On fixed-wing aircraft, the angle of incidence (sometimes referred to as the mounting angle [1] or setting angle) is the angle between the chord line of the wing where the wing is mounted to the fuselage, and a reference axis along the fuselage (often the direction of minimum drag, or where applicable, the longitudinal axis).
The chord line is the straight line connecting leading and trailing edges. The chord length, or simply chord, , is the length of the chord line. That is the reference dimension of the airfoil section. Different definitions of airfoil thickness An airfoil designed for winglets (PSU 90-125WL)
For symmetrical airfoils =, so the aerodynamic center is at 25% of chord measured from the leading edge. But for cambered airfoils the aerodynamic center can be slightly less than 25% of the chord from the leading edge, which depends on the slope of the moment coefficient, . These results obtained are calculated using the thin airfoil theory so ...
For example, the NACA 23112 profile describes an airfoil with design lift coefficient of 0.3 (0.15 × 2), the point of maximum camber located at 15% chord (5 × 3), reflex camber (1), and maximum thickness of 12% of chord length (12). The camber line for the simple case (S = 0) is defined in two sections: [11]
The natural outcome of this requirement is a wing design that is thin and wide, which has a low thickness-to-chord ratio. At lower speeds, undesirable parasitic drag is largely a function of the total surface area, which suggests using a wing with minimum chord, leading to the high aspect ratios seen on light aircraft and regional airliners ...
This line is a line of constant pressure (isobar) since shock waves cannot exist across isobars and for a well-designed wing coincides with a constant percent chord [6] as shown. The triangles show that only part of the streamwise incident airflow is responsible for producing lift or causing shock waves (i.e. that part shown by the arrow ...