What is the formula for finding a angle for a vee tail?
I ahve seen a reference to it on your site, but can’t find the acdtual formula. From : Don Stackhouse It’s in several of the articles. However, some readers have a phobia about algebra, so I was always careful to write it out in words, not variables. For most folks, the easiest approach is to first design a conventional tail, and then calculate the size and dihedral for an equivalent V-tail. Design of a conventional tail is a subjective thing, and depends on the entire design specification for the airplane and on the details of the rest of the aircraft. Entire books could be written about this subject. For example, the size of the fin on a twin-engined aircraft is often about three times bigger than a single-engine airplane would need, because of the requirement for enough rudder authority to counteract the yaw moment from an engine-out situation. Likewise, the horizontal tail area required for a model with flaps is often much greater than for one without flaps, because of the extra ae
