If I design a root rib is there a trailing edge taper and rib spacing that will make the thickness taper come out right if I'm reducing the cord of the root rib at each station at the printers or, does the thickness just work itself out no matter the taper, aspect ratio or rib spacing? But do you want to have the same % thickness at the tip as you do the root?
Thanks,
Motorman
I may be the odd man out or just the odd man, but I have never designed a plane that had a tapered TE. I still used the old fashioned stacking method to cut ribs on my last two but I will be going with foam in the future.
IMHO I don't think that the small amount of airfoil distortion from keeping the TE untapered on the normal 3/8 thick TE has much effect. There are at least 103.5 other things that are more important.
Ken