3D View now available for Wing and Tail designs. Zoom in or out , rotate in 3 dimensions , show wire frame, solid mesh or fully rendered.

Add up to 10 favourite programs to the Tool Menu for easy access from Winfoil

.Tools Tab

Airfoil camber and chord lines plotted on screen.

Airfoil cambercan be altered.

Airfoil Comparison

Airfoil data import capability.

Airfoil Lift/Drag Maintenance Screen

Airfoil thickness shown

Airfoil thicknesscan be altered.

Airfoil thickness variation allowed for when printing

Airfoil top or bottom surfaces can be mirrored

Airfoil verification in Reynolds Number graph. Verifies calculated

performance with airfoil lift/drag data.

All screens are resizeable and sizes and positions are saved on exit so that screens

will be restored the next time Winfoil is run.

Alter Aspect Ratio or maintain Aspect Ratio for a design item in the Design CAD Tab .

Automatic calculation of Wing area, aspect ratio and mean aerodynamic chord and aerodynamic centre in

the Design CAD Tab

CAD like user interface screens to design wings and

airfoils

Calculate Aircraft performance . Power required ,

stall speed, max. L/D, sink speed and max. speed.

Comments can be entered for airfoils and design .items.

Connect to the Winfoil Web Site

Context sensitive Help. Press the Function Key F1 to select help on the currently selected feature within WINFOIL or press the HELP button.

Copy and rename Airfoils.

Copy. and rename Design Items.

Create simple fuselage and fuselage former shapes .

Define own types of components .

Database can be shared over a network for multi user access

Design Targets entered in the Drag Breakdown screen can now be viewed in the Design CAD screen. Use these to select the appropriate airfoil, set the correct span and arrive at a shape which meets the Aspect Ratio requirements.

Design wings or tails of any shape. Winfoil will automatically determine rib lengths

Different airfoil sections can be selected for a wing design .

Winfoil will automatically print the airfoil sections along the span.

DXF Airfoil, Rib, Wing, tail and fuselage plan

Edit airfoil coordinates and design item

coordinatesTab directly with a mouse.

Enter wing coordinates using the keyboard in the Design CAD Tab

Estimate Airfoil pitching moment and angle of attack at zero lift

Expanded range of measurement units (metric and imperial)

Export selected airfoils for input into other programs. Export design performance

data to Excel spreadsheets

Grouping of design components. Components such as wing, tail, specifications are grouped by design name for ease of reference.

Horizontal and vertical tail sizing calculations for conventional aircraft .

Import automatic number format conversion for European countries using American or British airfoil coordinates.

Import Eppler format airfoil coordinates.

Import Soartech lift and drag data. Multiple airfoils

can be compared

Import Stuttgart format airfoil coordinates.

Menu shortcut keys.

NACA Airfoil Wizard. Generate 4,5 and 6 Digit NACA Airfoils

New airfoil sort/search facility.

Overlay airfoils , input airfoil coordinates using the

keyboard and select points.

Parameter tables can be configured to add new design types, drag breakdown

items and aircraft configurations .

Print airfoil sections in metric or imperial dimensions

Print one airfoil per page or automatically adjust to print more than one per page.

Print airfoils for a range of chord lengths.

Print airfoil name, grid, chord length and coordinates.

Print design item specifications

Print airfoils to the windows clipboard

Print airfoils larger than page size.

Print wing planforms , fuselage formers, fuselage sides (. Left , right or both panels.)

Popup menus.

Recalculate airfoil thickness and camber for every airfoil.

Reynolds number calculation in air and water.

Rib View is now available in the Design CAD screen. View each rib in a Wing or Tail design. See Spar, Shear Web and wing skin thickness. Automatically redraw when a spar is added, changed or deleted. Shows interpolated airfoil section if different airfoils have been selected for the root and tip.

Search/Sort screen for quickly locating airfoils or design items.

Support for Eppler and Eppler 100 style airfoil coordinate formats

Scanned pictures and comments can be added to design components

Pictures can be zoomed, saved and printed.

Soartech airfoil import capability.

Spar design facility. Any number of spars and shear webs can be placed

at any position along the chord of a wing or tail.

Store airfoil lift, , drag and pitching moment coefficients for airfoil comparison

and selection.

Use windows calculator from within Winfoil to perform scaling calculations

Windows 95 style user interface. Tab windows, floating and dockable toolbars.

Explorer style windows.

Wing Sweep can now be set in the Design CAD screen. A sweepback chord position can be entered as well as a sweepback angle.

Wing wizard to simplify wing design.