04-17-2011, 12:30 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Boost-gliders *will* glide with un-airfoiled, flat plate wings, but airfoiling the wings and (optionally) the horizontal stabilizer (or the small forward canard wing, on a canard glider) will improve the glider's performance. A boost-glider with flat-plate wings can be used as a "foul-weather B/G," on days when a better-gliding B/G with a lower sink rate might glide out of sight.
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