> The back of the wings can be adjusted to steer your paper airplane. Bend the wings up to make the airplane dive and bend the wings down to make the airplane climb.
Isn't it the other way around?
Isn't it the other way around?
If the surfaces are in the front of cg/cl, they need to do the opposite. To pull the nose up, they would have to point downwards.
Concorde worked this way [1], and called them 'elevons'. When I used to work on Tornados these were called 'tailerons'.
[1] https://www.heritageconcorde.com/roll-pitch-and-yaw
Edit: The original site actually describes them correctly here, so I assume the text on the front-page is just a typo: https://www.foldnfly.com/lounge/steer-aim.php#elevon
(And yes that's a word)
Is there something about the aerodynamics of paper planes that I don’t understand? Probably!