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Flap *and* flaperons on a three-piece wing?

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firegremlin

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I'm doing some random preliminary sketching for s *very* small twin-engine, twin tandem seat plane. In this particular idea I end up with a low three-section wing, each section roughly equal in span (~8 feet). Zero dihedral or taper in the middle section, and then all the dihedral and taper goes into the outer sections.

For the purposes of flaps in such a setup, does it make sense to just have a Cessna-style fowler flap in the middle, and conventional flaperons for the outer secions? Or is there a better way to do it? I'd like to have benign stall behavior, effective flaps, reasonably efficient wing when clean, and medium complexity.
 
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