spitfire wing dihedral (1 Viewer)

[uksubs]

How many company's have got this wrong on a Spitfire
More have got it wrong than right & I'm talking about die cast & corgi & co
Dihedral - the tips are higher than the root as on the Spitfire, giving a shallow 'V' shape when seen from the front. Adds lateral stability.

 

[Spitfrnd]

How many company's have got this wrong on a Spitfire
More have got it wrong than right & I'm talking about die cast & corgi & co
Dihedral - the tips are higher than the root as on the Spitfire, giving a shallow 'V' shape when seen from the front. Adds lateral stability.

Well Corgi got it wrong on their 1/32s. The smaller scale diecast examples have done pretty well.

 

[IXEC]

As the Spit's were at 6 degrees.....do you think that will be overlooked again...

 

[Spitfrnd]

As the Spit's were at 6 degrees.....do you think that will be overlooked again...

I would hope not; it is well documented and an important part of the overall look of the aircraft. Of course it was also important for its handling characteristics; it would have been bloody unstable at 0 with that wing shape.

 

[Spitfrnd]

Since we are on the subject of dihedral, do the polystone aircraft that have come out in 1/30ish scale have it? Several people have asked me about it and I have not seen any of them in person. I know the Corgi's (other than the Spitfire) and Hobby Masters do but to be honest, I have never measured them to see if they are correct. Ironically that is something we did carefully in doing flight sim modeling since it will quite dramatically affect the handling.

 

[IXEC]

Since we are on the subject of dihedral, do the polystone aircraft that have come out in 1/30ish scale have it? Several people have asked me about it and I have not seen any of them in person. I know the Corgi's (other than the Spitfire) and Hobby Masters do but to be honest, I have never measured them to see if they are correct. Ironically that is something we did carefully in doing flight sim modeling since it will quite dramatically affect the handling.

Valid question....I hope...the only detail I've looked at, of the wings so far...are the details that present itself, to the underside....not the dihedral, yet...but the wheel wells and landing gear themselves...that being the most obvious of details.

On my Hurricane, this was poorly done....with no details at all in the wheel wells....and the landing gear are just glued on at an " improper " angle...IMHO..

I'll dig out my K&C aircraft....time permitting...and report back on their dihedrals.