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Old 16 Nov 2004, 22:07 (Ref:1155452)   #5
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imull has a lot of promise if they can keep it on the circuit!
thats not the main reason.

eventually if you keep increasing the pitch of the wing, it will cause separation on the underside, which will rapidly/hugely increase the drag and simultaneously slash the negative lift...

That is why some racers with multi element wings can actually run at a pitch of over 90 degrees (ie air flow actually travelling forward when leaving the 'trailing edge'.

message me your email address and I will send you an aero assignment i did last year that has all teh diagrams and a better explanation if youwant...
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