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Old January 3rd 09, 08:39 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell
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Default Minumum Sink Rate/Best L/D at 17,000 feet ?

wrote:


Here is the sailplane wing flutter video I was referring to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQI3AWpTWhM

You can see the flutter is symmetric with several waves from tip to
tip.


When I pause the video, I can see one tip is up while the other tip is
down. Isn't that asymmetric flutter?

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