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Mid wing placement

Name: Mid wing placement dimension sheet
Creator: Xem Studio
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

What are the advantages of a mid-mounted wing? · Standard part · basis: Design rules and figures from the cited sources; example geometry by Xem Studio

Also called: mid wing, mid wing aircraft, mid wing rc plane, mid wing aerobatic, mid wing vs low wing, mid wing interference drag, pattern plane wing position, 3d plane wing position

Exact dimensions. True size, with no printing tolerance added.

sizes: 4 in table

Notes

A mid wing meets the fuselage at right angles, which wind-tunnel reports favoured for low interference drag (US Naval Institute, Corsair design history).
With ailerons, McCombs recommends 'essentially 0 deg' effective dihedral for mid-wing and biplane RC models, and 7-8 deg for rudder-only mid-wing models (Model Aviation). That near-neutral roll response suits aerobatic aircraft (Kitplanes).
A mid wing's spar crosses the fuselage, which can be awkward; the Corsair's designers avoided a long, heavy landing gear by bending the wing instead (USNI).
The file is a reference example built by Xem Studio from the numbers above. Sizes the sources do not fix are illustrative; scale the example to your own vehicle.

Mid wing placement size chart

parameter	value or range	source
RC with ailerons, mid wing	essentially 0 deg	McCombs 1994
RC rudder-only, mid wing	about 7-8 deg	McCombs 1994
FF scale, mid wing EVD	0-5 deg	McCombs 1994
Reference build	1000 x 200 mm, 0 deg dihedral	McCombs

Where the files are

Other publishers' files are linked, not hosted. "verify" = check the license at the link before commercial use.

US Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine	Designing the Bent-Wing Bird (Feb 1995)	web	Publisher's page; dimensions are facts
Model Aviation (AMA), W.F. McCombs	Wing and Tail Dihedral for Models (Dec 1994)	web	Publisher's page; dimensions are facts
Kitplanes (B. Wainfan)	Wind Tunnel: Roll's role in lateral stability (2008)	web	Publisher's page; dimensions are facts

Free files

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mid-wing-wing

rectangular planform: span 1000, root 200, tip 200 mm, LE sweep 0°, dihedral 0°, NACA 0012

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