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Would you be able to elaborate on the the assumptions of elastic properties that you would have to make?

If you have a beam with 4 reaction forces, how do you calculate the load taken by each reaction? It occurs to me that you cannot simply take moments about one point so what is the method you can use to find the reactions? I made one example where the beam was symmetrical so I tried equating it...

Maybe (sec u)^2(sec u) would help and then maybe integrate by parts, but that probably won't work in the end either.

Since asking the question I found that out, thanks. Sorry for causing confusion, basically I intendted it to be, is the cross section of a delta wing an airfoil? Which it is, I understand that you can have plenty of different designs of airfoils for different purposes.

http://www.f1technical.net/ That website might be of some use to you has information about almost all aspects of an F1 car.

The tension in the cable is going to be pretty high though, say you had a fairly normal 1.5 ton saloon (think that's probably about right), that's a tension of something like 726kN so if your cable is made out of something like mild steel it'll need to be fairly thick to deal with it and firing...

Is that a bit like the seam on say a baseball if I am right in thinking that can help reduce the turbulent wake, or maybe the fluff on a tennis ball? Is the cross section of a Delta Wing similar to that of a normal aerofoil? Does anyone have a link to a picture of it?

I understand how an ordinary wing works but I cannot find anything on how a delta wing works, the only thing I know is that it creates vortices on the upper wing surface, but how do these vortices create lift?