What Is Dihedral? How Does It Work? When To Use It?

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  • Опубликовано: 23 мар 2016
  • A brief and basic description of how the dihedral effect works in airplanes. Useful in some situations and some airplanes, dihedral has some advantages and disadvantages. Having a simple understanding of the principle at work can help you build and operate a plane with dihedral or polyhedral.
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  • @RealEngineering
    @RealEngineering 8 лет назад +46

    Love your videos! Was planning to do a video on this concept at some point myself.

  • @SamuelWallsJames
    @SamuelWallsJames 2 года назад +1

    You were the only person who managed to get me to understand this properly, thank you!

  • @partsbenttoys
    @partsbenttoys 7 лет назад

    Thanks Ed, even yrs latter I can come back for an over view. cant tell you how much your vids have re-newed my interest in the hobby. cheers

  • @ruprechtrw
    @ruprechtrw 8 лет назад +15

    Thank you. I've learned much today.

  • @crazycrow3378
    @crazycrow3378 8 лет назад +2

    When I first started flying I was actually not a big fan of using rudder. I learned flying without using it at all. Later on when I flew my first plane with a flight controller I found out the real advantage of using the rudder. After this video I concluded I'm gonna have to scratcbuild an aileronless dihedral plane just to get a feel for what it's like.
    Thanks for the inspiration.

  • @StephenTack
    @StephenTack 8 лет назад +3

    Thanks! This clears up some confusion I had after being told the "tipped wing lifts less" myth.

  • @royalbirb275
    @royalbirb275 4 года назад +1

    using this to study for my commercial single-engine ground course, and it helps a lot, thanks!

  • @cybrunel1016
    @cybrunel1016 5 лет назад

    Great stuff. I enjoyed the way you went in depth without overwhelming us. Kudos.

  • @SR-ge1ci
    @SR-ge1ci 7 лет назад

    clear and simple, love it! thank you

  • @prinecash
    @prinecash 4 года назад +1

    Very interesting--many years ago when I was experimenting with glider models it always seemed that adding dihedral made a difference.You did a very clear and knowledgeable explanation. Thanks.

  • @brettsgalaxyvids
    @brettsgalaxyvids 8 лет назад

    Great video......Keep em coming!

  • @thomasanil488
    @thomasanil488 6 лет назад +1

    AMAZING WORK!!!

  • @blackmennewstyle
    @blackmennewstyle 8 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the great explanation :)
    Enjoy the rest of your week

  • @DickGibson
    @DickGibson 8 лет назад +1

    Great stuff, thanks a big bunch!

  • @robertbrunston5406
    @robertbrunston5406 5 лет назад

    Thank you for your explanation and demo.

  • @umutdiksac3649
    @umutdiksac3649 4 года назад

    Amazing video!!! Thank you for sharing. GOOD JOB:)

  • @foxbodyford
    @foxbodyford 8 лет назад +5

    Appreciate the video.

  • @61066clocks
    @61066clocks 8 лет назад

    Thanks for the vids Ed, also enjoy the content

  • @vijaysharmapc
    @vijaysharmapc 4 года назад

    The Best Explanation.

  • @mattvelasquez5510
    @mattvelasquez5510 8 лет назад +3

    good video thank you for sharing

  • @tommuhlemanjr.3871
    @tommuhlemanjr.3871 8 лет назад

    Very cool video! I love to see you flying and making videos again. I've been a licensed full scale pilot for 30 years and I still learned a couple of things (of course, depending on which lift model you subscribe to). Anyway, keep the videos coming.

  • @sanjeen2503
    @sanjeen2503 7 лет назад

    You explain nice, especially with the "wind's view of the wing". Liked!

  • @markhondaturbo
    @markhondaturbo 8 лет назад

    great video. the plane you were flying sounded really cool, like a 4 stroke gasser. very smooth, too.

  • @wassafakhtar2262
    @wassafakhtar2262 8 лет назад

    Dihedral is great for Lateral stability . Love this Video .
    This Concept saves a lot of Money and Work ,When its only 3 Channel .

  • @bearcat8691
    @bearcat8691 8 лет назад

    Great video as usual, Ed!
    That's the best explanation of the function of dihedral I've ever seen!
    Keep up the good work! Thanks!

  • @syedabdulsami7759
    @syedabdulsami7759 4 года назад

    You have great explaining skills.

  • @brianemery8945
    @brianemery8945 8 лет назад

    excellent explaination. and your airplane designs are beautifully simple. i just wish i found your channel earlier!

  • @quiet_paradox9830
    @quiet_paradox9830 4 года назад

    You just saved my Flight Dynamics grade. Thank you

  • @danogle9927
    @danogle9927 8 лет назад

    Excellent, thank you

  • @INDIRC1
    @INDIRC1 5 лет назад

    Amazing work bro

  • @garystephenson8063
    @garystephenson8063 8 лет назад

    I like all your video. and like all the training you give. I have build a few of you tube and they flight great.. keep up the good work...

  • @steamingbob
    @steamingbob 7 лет назад

    Good simple explanation

  • @pirateman1966
    @pirateman1966 8 лет назад

    Great educational video Ed. Would you be able to make a longEZ model, or some other canard design with your construction techniques?

  • @garymanning8920
    @garymanning8920 4 года назад

    Excellent

  • @ThKattmann
    @ThKattmann 8 лет назад +2

    This guy is F'n Great !!

  • @thenatedog
    @thenatedog 8 лет назад

    I have a big 3 channel plane setup for fpv chasing. Its nice because when you want to use pan and tilt you dont have to worry about also keeping the wings level. On a 4 channel plane i have a hard time using pan/tilt without a flight controller keeping the plane level.

  • @yassermasood9798
    @yassermasood9798 8 лет назад

    very educational video

  • @iman80skid91
    @iman80skid91 2 года назад

    Nice video... Thank you...
    What motor do you have in that plane

  • @mmatt334
    @mmatt334 6 лет назад +1

    I'd like to see more videos like this explains more laws of flight as I am an avid flyer and foam board builder

  • @SnapPunchRobert
    @SnapPunchRobert 8 лет назад

    Very informative video. I've always wondered how that worked.
    ??? -- -- I have a question. What is the upside or downside of having Dihedral in your wings like that and having Ailerons ?

  • @q300SBB
    @q300SBB 8 лет назад

    Great job Ed. Is it true that with a rudder induced turn, say to the right, that the left wing would have a momentary increase airspeed, resulting in a subsequent increase in lift, thereby raising that wing? The secondary effect of yaw being roll?

  • @JByrneMon
    @JByrneMon 4 года назад

    Good video. Could you explain why adding dihedral would fluctuate the change in lift due to a forward velocity perturbation? Its often considered a negligible effect but I can't wrap my head around it.

  • @user-rr8uh2de5q
    @user-rr8uh2de5q 11 месяцев назад

    nice so far this is the only video i saw that have a working rc plane with no ailerons, i got a project and my question is it possible to make a plane that can only go straight with only motor and battery

  • @mountaindewdude76
    @mountaindewdude76 8 лет назад

    That's too cool! My Dad would probably be able to benefit from a plane like this. That plane....is that just an elongated Noob Tube? Great video, Ed!

  • @nikolatotev
    @nikolatotev 8 лет назад

    Hi, I am new to the hobby and I was wondering if I can retrofit ailerons to dihedral?

  • @FlyingMerf
    @FlyingMerf 8 лет назад +2

    Great video as usual. I have one small difference of opinion however. The different magnitudes of the VERTICAL COMPONENTS of lift from each wing plays a role in righting the plane, in addition to the yaw-related effects you explained.

  • @daleharrington5936
    @daleharrington5936 8 лет назад

    Great Video. Wrapping my head around if i save electronics. I can have a new plane every week. Time and a buck a sheet.

  • @AnthonyvanHamond
    @AnthonyvanHamond 7 лет назад

    extremely good and clear video!!! great work!.. btw your electric plane kinda has the farting sound of a muffled gasser. is that because of the fuselage-end or the prop?

  • @dudulin1359
    @dudulin1359 5 лет назад

    Nice video! But can anyone help me with 4:40, just don't understand why will the wing have a higher AOA at leeward side, thanks a lot!

  • @albensmaine3057
    @albensmaine3057 3 года назад

    hi man , i have been building so many rc planes and most of them don't even glide properly , i want to make this exact plane do you have an tutorials or tips on how to make the wings and what dimensions for the whole plane ? and how much does it weight ? to be honest we have to present our school project plane but it doesnt even fly ..

  • @brijeshsrivastav1992
    @brijeshsrivastav1992 6 лет назад

    Actually I am planning to make a bicopter quinjet with both fixed wing and free wing abilities. Now the original avengers quinjet has an anhedral angle, so I wanted to now if it in anyway effects the ability of the quinjet.....pls help

  • @gke3800
    @gke3800 2 года назад

    Where is that noise coming from - resonance or prop balance? Good explanation of dihedral though.

  • @nadeemimran6295
    @nadeemimran6295 6 лет назад

    How does the angle of dihedral effect the plane's flight and what is the best angle

  • @JesseWright68
    @JesseWright68 4 года назад

    What plane is shown at the beginning and end of the video?

  • @INDIRC1
    @INDIRC1 4 года назад

    What is fuselage material?

  • @Raj_yadav582
    @Raj_yadav582 6 лет назад

    I like your rc/plane

  • @davidoneworld7759
    @davidoneworld7759 5 лет назад +1

    Soviet aircraft of the 1960's and 1970's had low wings that were anhedral. Take a look at the Tupolev 134 and 154 and the Ilyushin 62. That seems inherently unstable to me as an Aeronautical engineer. No one has yet explained this paradox. Perhaps you can?

  • @MatthewHeiskell
    @MatthewHeiskell 8 лет назад +7

    Dihedral also raises the center of lift, which provides pendulum stability.

    • @kevinhainline8232
      @kevinhainline8232 6 лет назад +2

      pendulum stability isn't a thing. Not for free-flying air vehicles at least. If you draw a free-body-diagram this should become apparent

    • @barny-6727
      @barny-6727 6 лет назад +1

      Kevin Hainline why? Moments about CG?

    • @kevinhainline8232
      @kevinhainline8232 6 лет назад

      exactly. your lift always goes through the CG, so disturbances in attitude don't cause a response in the moment about the CG that would rotationally accelerate the vehicle back toward level. tom stanton has a good video about this

  • @bobu5213
    @bobu5213 5 лет назад

    So if it creates more lift on one wing won't that create a positive feedback loop of lift on one side and knock the plane over?

  • @stickmixfpv188
    @stickmixfpv188 8 лет назад +1

    Great explanation of dihedral! Education on high level! 👍
    But why does the plane sound like a chainsaw? 😂

  • @jeffs7915
    @jeffs7915 Год назад

    Doesn't a higher AOA cause greater lift and drag? The drag causes the the higher AOA wimg to stall leveling the wing.

  • @DEeMONsworld
    @DEeMONsworld 8 лет назад

    Aerodynamic forces on a complex shape as in an air frame are many and interrelated. Your explanation is what I would call an excellent middle ground between a simplistic somewhat erroneous description, and an over everyone's head mathematical treatise. In fact the second biggest influence on an air frames relative dihedral is a largish square fuselage shape. So boxy trainers have a greater relative dihedral than a sexy rounded and or blended fuse, and if that fuselage also has an airfoil shaped profile all the more streamlined and an effective lift generator it becomes. A good example in the full scale homebuilt category would be the Wittman Tailwind. It is a small boxy plane capable of 200MPH speeds.

  • @punitprakash4287
    @punitprakash4287 4 года назад

    What if we check dihadral for VAWT

  • @latifsaifudin1463
    @latifsaifudin1463 4 года назад

    size wingspan and fulsage sir?

  • @goodboyringo9716
    @goodboyringo9716 6 месяцев назад

    Where are the 5.00 servos , ggg
    I haven't found a control horn for 5.00

  • @onmyworkbench7000
    @onmyworkbench7000 Год назад

    I just found your channel and I have found it very informative and I like how you get right to the point of the video with out a lot of JABBERING at the start of your videos.
    How about doing a video on wing sweepback rather than diherdal? It is my undrestanding that every deg. of sweepback is the equivalent to some deg. of dierdal.

  • @kertatthedisco8253
    @kertatthedisco8253 7 лет назад +1

    3:54 How does the upwind wing incur a greater AOA than the downwind wing?

    • @bridlingtonengland75
      @bridlingtonengland75 7 лет назад

      Was thinking the same thing, but I only think this occurs 'as it is moving' which would make sense. As the wing moves down, its angle to the relative wind must be increasing. At least I think that is right?

    • @kertatthedisco8253
      @kertatthedisco8253 7 лет назад

      +bridlingtonengland75 I did some research and I think it is important to know first the direction of the relative wind so you can fully visualize how the other wing has a higher AOA than the other. Here, check the answer with the pink airplane. aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26759/how-does-the-dihedral-angle-work

    • @iforce2d
      @iforce2d 6 лет назад

      I think he means when the wingtip of one wing moves forward due to a yaw change, it will present a more sloped surface to the oncoming air than it does when perpendicular to the airflow. That is, instead of the air moving directly from leading edge to trailing edge, it will now also move slightly spanwise, from the wingtip toward the wing root.

  • @aeroengineer23
    @aeroengineer23 4 года назад

    Lift is not parpendicular to chord line by the way. It is parpendicular to relative airflow

  • @RadiationStudio
    @RadiationStudio 8 лет назад

    I don't think angle of attack is the correct term regarding side-slip, I would use relative air flow. However, I think this video was great and your plane looks great too.

  • @MasboyRC
    @MasboyRC 4 года назад

    You change your channel's name sir? I was search your channel for a few weeks 😂

  • @lasersbee
    @lasersbee 8 лет назад +4

    Like the Video.... Hate the dog barking..;)

    • @spencerboaz2385
      @spencerboaz2385 7 лет назад

      It happens lol , I have a rooster crowing in my last video about my drone .

  • @user-jf3pn1dq8z
    @user-jf3pn1dq8z 8 лет назад

    What's flight time of NoobTube plane?

  • @keithzhang7194
    @keithzhang7194 3 года назад

    How come a electrical motor make sounds like a gas engine?

  • @scramjet7466
    @scramjet7466 6 лет назад

    i don't understand how a paper plane with no yaw but dihedral flies more stable

  • @francesco5254
    @francesco5254 3 года назад

    Finally! The "more lift" explanation was torturing me :)

  • @SsoulBlade
    @SsoulBlade 8 лет назад +1

    Motor sounds like a small angry petrol engine. :-)

  • @BensMiniToons
    @BensMiniToons 3 года назад

    The plane is so loud. lol Though it was switched for a gas plane of the same color.

  • @garyshoell9245
    @garyshoell9245 9 месяцев назад

    I disagree with this idea of dihedral, firstly you lift is generated 90% to the lifting surface and will try to balance themselves, that how the old fashioned scales work, equal weights and the scales are level, then you say side slip levels the wings, normally enough side slip would be rudder induced and not the way you describe. A plane has a vertical stabiliser which makes the tail follow the the front of the aircraft, the same way weather vanes work, also when a plane is taxiing and encounters a cross wind it will attempt to weather cock.

  • @rck938
    @rck938 6 лет назад

    Imran khan

  • @GreyhatInfiltrator
    @GreyhatInfiltrator 8 лет назад

    Electric Flight is very nice indeed. One of the reasons, why I dropped gas-powered airplane.

  • @olooalfredo
    @olooalfredo 4 года назад

    Your eyes are pretty much scaring! Lol

  • @minshal4444
    @minshal4444 10 месяцев назад

    End of the debate:
    Company destroyes our beautiful country.

  • @OCD.Reader
    @OCD.Reader 6 лет назад

    bad explanation