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E. Notebooks are evaluated. F. Participants have four (4) opportunities to fly their gliders for official times. The combined flight time of the best three (3) of the four (4) flights is used to determine the ten (10) finalists. Dihedral (courtesy divad135) (As said above) Any hand glider that you will ever build will need dihedral on the main wing to stabilize it in flight, or it will nosedive. Here are 2 basic rules: If the plane has wingspan under 30 inches: 1degree for every 1 inch of wing span. If the plane has a wingspan over 30 inches: 0.5 degrees for every 1 inch of wingspan. Before considering the moment arm, however, the tail area to be used must first be determined. On the average glider of twenty inch wing span and 42 or 45 square inches of area, a stabilizer of eight inch span, and 14 or 16 square inches in area is most efficient. This constitutes about 23% of the wing area and has been found to work better than any other set-up. With this given amount of stabilizer area a moment arm of between four and six inches has proven its efficiency. After considering the elevator area, the next step is to find how much rudder area is required. This usually is best found by taking approximately 14% of the wing area. By WALTER L. WEITNER

DIHEDRAL - How Much is Enough? -by Clay Ramskill In general, the more dihedral an aircraft has, the more it will tend to self-right to wings level when upset from straight and level flight. This little bit of roll stability makes the plane easier to fly because the pilot doesn't have to be constantly fighting to maintain wings level. Note the top two drawings in the figure - once we are no longer level, the lower wing is effectively a bit longer, and the lift forces forces on the lower wing are pointed more straight up. Also, since the figure shows a high wing plane, the CG of the plane is offset toward the high wing. All these situations tend to force the plane back to a wings level condition initially, before the plane begins turning or skidding sideways. But the conditions described above won't last long. Also note that we now have the lift forces on the higher wing pushing sideways; this will cause the plane to skid sideways, turn, or both. Assuming no corrections from the pilot, what now happens is largely dependent upon the size of the rudder/fin combination! If the fin/rudder area is just right, the skid continues just enough for the dihedral effect of the wing to return us to wings level. Too much area in the fin/rudder, and we turn without skidding. Centripetal force from the turn negates all the self-righting effects, and we fly in balanced flight, but in an ever increasing wing and nose-down spiral - this is called spiral instability. Too little fin/rudder area, and the skid continues even as we pass wings level, resulting in over correction, and the plane rolls and skids, oscillating like a drunken sailor - this is called dutch roll. Although the above discussion is more important to glider and free-flight pilots, it brings us to look at how dihedral affects a plane in skidding flight - and the good and bad sides of the dihedral effect. Note in the figure what happens to a plane with dihedral when in a skid, or unbalanced flight. This condition can occur with the pilots deflection of the rudder, or when a wind gust hits the plane from the side. The large discrepancy in angle of attack between the two wings causes the plane to roll away from the direction of the skid. The dihedral effect is beneficial in self righting, gives us roll coupling with rudder application, and unfortunately, also gives us roll away from a side wind gust. Incidentally, sweeping a wing back also gives us dihedral effect - with about 5 degrees of sweep being equivalent to 1 degree of dihedral. While roll coupling is essential to a trainer with no ailerons, its not good for aerobatic and combat aircraft. Most acrobatic and pattern models will have no dihedral. Military planes, with swept wings for speed, often use negative dihedral to counter the dihedral effects from the wing sweep - the Harrier, A7 Corsair, and C5 transport come to mind. And while trainers usually have quite a bit of dihedral, and are wonderfully stable in normal flight, we've all seen them turn vicious in a gusty crosswind, during take off and landing, and even while taxiing on the field. How much dihedral is enough?? For most of us, then, the answer is - Only enough to give us the roll stability we need, commensurate with our flying skills!