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Do winglets produce thrust?
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December 4th 03, 09:31 PM
Fred the Red Shirt
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(cddb) wrote in message hlink.net...
Don't think so.
Gravity provides the thrust. Quite noticeably when fuselage
is pointed vertically. None at all when fuselage/wing is horizontal.
Rather obviously if this were true the glider would only move in the
vertical direction, and not at all in the horizontal.
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