Pattern wing design

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

The Kaos wing was a TLAR section of approximately 15% thickness. Root chord 
was around 13" and tip chord was around 10"

 with a span of around 60"
, in double tapered planform. The Super Kaos was one of the better flying 
planes of the day and trained many a  budding pattern pilot, including me. 
HOWEVER, the ribs were pretty much all different; shapes, thicknesses, LE TE all 
tended to be a little different and matched poorly to the overall structure. That 
is, compared to most things we see today.

Another HOWEVER: it flew extremely well even though the wing surfaces were 
often uneven. It flew better than the later releases called the UDDER CHAOS or 
Ultimate Kaos or something like that. The later versions were utilising the 
world famous Curare wing, which, on the Curare, worked incredibly well. It was 
the World Champ airplane after all, Hanno Prettner notwithstanding. On the Super 
Kaos, it behaved doggy. OMO

The Prophecy airfoil, as the story was re-told, came from FS, or fish shape. 
Nature given the chance, will be more efficient in her designs, one way or 
another. So the copying here was pure genius. Or not.

Matt K
> Subj:Re: Pattern wing design 
> Date:9/4/2003 10:42:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:randy10926 at comcast.net">randy10926 at comcast.net</A>
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> Anyone know what wing the KAOS and Prophecy uses.  I recently got a Kaos kit 
> 
> and the plans for a KOAS 90.  Thinking to building a Kaos 90 with Prophecy 
> wings.  I would like to use one of the wing programs to generate a balsa 
> built 
> up wing.  For some reason I would like to really build something.
> 
> Randy

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