# Can We Have a Reverse Engineering Foil Database Thread?

**URL:** https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286
**Category:** Foils & Boards
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286 "2018-11-10T12:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/u/rmoscoloni)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/1 "2018-11-10T12:30:12Z")

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Well, to anywone reading i want to hear your aswers!  
regards  
rck

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### Author: ![SoEFoil](https://foil.zone/user_avatar/foil.zone/soefoil/32/55_2.png) [@SoEFoil](https://foil.zone/u/SoEFoil)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/2 "2018-11-12T15:12:30Z")

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What do you mean exactly ? A database of front and rear wings in STL format ?

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### Author: ![rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/u/rmoscoloni)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/3 "2018-11-12T15:48:35Z")

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Hi, SoEFoil:  
thats an example, stls could be the most versatile format to share, if only scanned data is available.  
Could it be another format if someone re-draw into surfaces, to easier modifying to feed a CFD or a 3D printer.  
Not only for wing and tail, but fuselage and mast position, to obtain also distances and angles.  
And all the information at hand that the poster could consider relevant.  
Thanks for the reply SoEFoil!

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### Author: ![dougm](https://foil.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dougm](https://foil.zone/u/dougm)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/4 "2018-11-12T15:51:34Z")

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I would love to see a database of foil STL’s with their defining characteristics - lift, weight range, responsiveness, however these things are defined and characterized.

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### Author: ![rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@rmoscoloni](https://foil.zone/u/rmoscoloni)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/5 "2018-11-12T16:01:59Z")

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what do you mean with this?

> [@dougm](#):
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> however these things are defined and characterized

Thanks for the reply.

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### Author: ![dougm](https://foil.zone/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dougm](https://foil.zone/u/dougm)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://foil.zone/t/can-we-have-a-reverse-engineering-foil-database-thread/3286/6 "2018-11-13T03:50:40Z")

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> [@rmoscoloni](#):
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> however these things are defined and characterized

something like this:

 ![image](https://foil.zone/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1705ff389f4685aecc40e476d98638e7aed55c82.png)

but I also want to know weight range and stability (which is probably just the opposite of reactiveness) and any other factor that I don’t yet understand because I’m not really well versed in fluid dynamics 🙂