REFLECTOR: 65VT/ angle-of-attack system

[Al Gietzen]

Angle of Attack is a very useful tool for conventional plan form 
airplanes.  It is of little value for canard type aircraft since the 
wing you're trying to observe is the canard, and the incidence and 
aerodynamic properties (like stall AoA) are constantly changing (with 
elevator deflection). 

It just doesn't tell you anything particularly useful ... Jim S.

Good point, Jim.  However, I do think that it could be useful for
determining canard stall at one configuration; full elevator deflection.
Using the pressure port system, I'd expect installation on the main wing
will work fine; you just need to calibrate it the canard stall point.  The
relative AOA of the two airfoils is fixed.

Al