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Why are the russians so fond of negative dihedral?
Cuz anhedral looks angry!
We have a couple few with anhedral as well.
yeah a few of the big cargo jets have anhedral,the word i was having trouble remembering.
You could put the F104 on the list too..
But ofcourse and the B-52.
Harrier, F-8, A-7, S-3, F-15, etc.
Generally, anhedral is less stable than dihedral...making the aircraft more manueverable.
BUT...anhedral can also be more stable...enter B-52, C-5/17/141, S-3
Why not ask this in the Aircraft forum?
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Don Stauffer Why not ask this in the Aircraft forum?
For this dude, I've read that since tail horizontal stabs generally create negative lift, the anhedral on the stabs works like the dihedral on the wings.
Other reasons stated are more yaw stability.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
I have also heard it was to move elevators out of turbulent air from wing when wing at high angles of attack just before stall.
Anhedral is inheritantly unstable. With fly-by-wire, a computer can overcome this instability, and the aircraft is more maneuverable. Just about every modern fighter has anhedral, not just Russian.
I build 1/48 scale WW2 fighters.
Have fun.
I have always wondered why almost all russian a/c have anhedral.
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