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    NACA was a committee that created standardized airfoil designs to help engineers. They developed 78 airfoils categorized by attributes like thickness. The NACA6409 airfoil has a distinctive arched shape due to its high maximum camber but thin thickness, making it popular for RC planes where weight is important but not high speeds. Its specifications correspond to maximum camber, position of maximum camber, and maximum thickness as a percentage of the chord length.

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    NACA was a committee that created standardized airfoil designs to help engineers. They developed 78 airfoils categorized by attributes like thickness. The NACA6409 airfoil has a distinctive arched shape due to its high maximum camber but thin thickness, making it popular for RC planes where weight is important but not high speeds. Its specifications correspond to maximum camber, position of maximum camber, and maximum thickness as a percentage of the chord length.

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    NACA was a committee that created standardized airfoil designs to help engineers. They developed 78 airfoils categorized by attributes like thickness. The NACA6409 airfoil has a distinctive arched shape due to its high maximum camber but thin thickness, making it popular for RC planes where weight is important but not high speeds. Its specifications correspond to maximum camber, position of maximum camber, and maximum thickness as a percentage of the chord length.

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    NACA and the NACA6409

    NACA, or the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautical Airfoils is responsible for

    airfoil designs we see in almost every single airplane in use today. Formed in the early thirties

    and forties, they created a catalog of 78 different airfoils, with the goal to give engineers an

    easier time define and categorizing airfoils by certain attributes like their Maximum Camber,

    Position of Max Camber, and the maximum thickness. There are also two types of airfoils

    defined by NACA. First is the four digit. This means each of these airfoils have three different

    defining factors. However they also created the 5 digit airfoil. This allowed the organization to

    define a more complex shaped airfoil. By properly following the four digit number that is

    specific to each NACA airfoil, one can perfectly replicate its design. As a result, it is easy to

    choose an appropriate airfoil depending on what plane and flight an engineer is looking for. One

    specific airfoil is the NACA6409. Having a very distinguishable shape, it has more of an arch,

    due to its high maximum camber, yet an overall small maximum thickness. Due to it being very

    thin in comparison to the other NACA airfoils, it is popular for RC planes. Reducing weight on

    any flying vehicle is extremely important, so many competitive RC designs use it. Furthermore,

    it is extremely effective for use in gliding, furthering its use as a RC plane. Unfortunately, it is

    not very useful for high speeds, which is why it is rarely found on actual commercial planes. Its

    specifications are as follows: The leading 6 correlates to the maximum camber, as a percent of

    the chord (.06c), the following 4 correlates to the chordwise position of the maximum camber

    (.4c), and the final two numbers 0 and 9 refer to the maximum thickness of the airfoil (.09c).

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