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Originally Posted by cdo221
I like what you guys are doing but do you guys take cosmetic preference into account? I'm just not sure the upside down J mounting looks all that great, is there a functional reason for that sort of solution?
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We will have two different single element designs to offer, one swan neck and the other normal. The one on this page is the normal mount and will be cheaper. The swan neck is a more aggressive airfoil profile which will be for a select few people who want to maximize downforce on a single element wing.
There is a valid engineering reasoning behind swan neck (J mounting). Swan necks are mounted to the top of the profile to keep the air less disrupted on the underside of the profile (low pressure side). The low pressure side is where most of the real work is being done. This is the most efficient design available beside the endplates being the mounts. However if the endplates are also the mounts (like modern F1 cars), the wing span is limited.
Oh and looks are subjective. My designs are almost all based on data and not looks.