[flyingfrizzle]

Originally Posted by gofastsandman

You make an excellent point that few discuss.

We have engine trim and trim tabs.
We have jack plates.
We have prop design.

Nobody talks about T tops.
Why not?

I have not seen a hardtop designed like a chord or wing
if you will. Think about a cutaway of an aircraft wing.
Flat on the bottom and curved on top.

Wings do not create lift.
Air wants to remain constant.

Since the distance traveled on the top of the wing
is greater than the bottom, the air has to speed up
to remain constant in its mass.

When you have an increase in air speed
you create an area of low pressure.

The wing moves from the area of high pressure
to the area of low pressure.

This is called lift, which is just an easy way of explaining
Bernoullis principle of hydrodynamics.

A t top design where you could optimize the angle of attack
and lift with trim of said top.

This is usually where Denny chimes in and says
he knows just enough to be dangerous.

Now, certainly this opens up another avenue of design failure
and operator error, but it is intriguing.

Cheers,
GFS

I like the way you think