29/01/2019
The effect
Do you know what is the effect?
If you look closely at the wings of most aircrafts, they're slightly tilted up, and it's not because you pulled too many Gs on your last flight. 🤣It's because of a design called dihedral.
When you bank an , the lift vector tilts in the same direction as the bank. And when that happens, your airplane starts slipping in the same direction, in this case, to the right.
When you add dihedral, you add lateral stability when your aircraft rolls left or right; let's say you're flying along and you accidentally bump your controls, rolling your plane to the right. When your wings have dihedral, a portion of the the relative wind strikes the underside of the low wing, pushing it back up toward wings level. What's really happening here is the low wing is flying at a higher AOA, and producing slightly more lift.
