Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170714130723/@comment-25936766-20170724210319

Phantomlink959 wrote: Considering you're now inventing flaws in my points to argue with (nowhere did I say the glider in question would be a flat sheet of metal, and yet you seem to think it would be one That's right, I assume it would be one.

Because most shapes of aerofoils, I can't see them being good-enough as axe-blades. And the idea behind an Axe Glider is that both modes work well, no? Otherwise there's no point.

"When it would in fact be a properly shaped wing" doesn't say much. There are multiple kinds of shapes, with varying forms of camber and so on.