Overview Ĭamber is usually designed into an airfoil to maximize its lift coefficient. The benefits of cambering were discovered and first utilized by George Cayley in the early 19th century. An airfoil that is not cambered is called a symmetric airfoil.
In aeronautics and aeronautical engineering, camber is the asymmetry between the two acting surfaces of an airfoil, with the top surface of a wing (or correspondingly the front surface of a propeller blade) commonly being more convex ( positive camber).
