ironnerd
Well-Known Member
A question for the Bonanza, Waiex, and Davis DA Drivers out there.
Having never flown a one, I simply don’t know, but it SEEMS like Left Turning Tendency should be a bit lower in a V-tail than int a Straight or T-Tail configuration.
My reasoning is that while the rotating slip-stream still hits the tail surface, the normal yawing force is now split between yaw and pitch because the tail surfaces are at an angle to the yaw and pitch axes which would create a bit of nose-down and nose-left in the climb.
It may not even be noticeable given that the plane would still have torque and asymmetric blade angle, but it still gave me a “Hmm…” moment.
Having never flown a one, I simply don’t know, but it SEEMS like Left Turning Tendency should be a bit lower in a V-tail than int a Straight or T-Tail configuration.
My reasoning is that while the rotating slip-stream still hits the tail surface, the normal yawing force is now split between yaw and pitch because the tail surfaces are at an angle to the yaw and pitch axes which would create a bit of nose-down and nose-left in the climb.
It may not even be noticeable given that the plane would still have torque and asymmetric blade angle, but it still gave me a “Hmm…” moment.
