#annular wing

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Universität Kobra M01 - "The Final-Year Project"

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Voting ended onMay 7, 2024

Role: Scout Served With: University Militias First Flight: 1609 Strengths: Highly Stable, Fast Weaknesses: Low Visibility, Sluggish

Description:

The Kobra series, since it is so well known and well studied, is a common platform for experimental fits and Final Year Projects, the last make-or-break test of the engineering student. The idea of tandem annular wings has rather captured the imagination of the aerodynamics community in the last few years and many students have attempted investigations of the possible benefits.

So many of these aircraft have been built and studied that they are becoming something of a baseline in themselves, and some have received subsequent experimental conversions to create scouts that have little in common with their origins.

The Kobra-series are already known as extremely stable designs, but these tandem wing designs tend to be so stable that they are legitimately hard to fly, wanting to straighten out like an arrow. The generally accepted spin recovery procedure for these aircraft is to let go of the controls.

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