At 13:11 24 February 2011, kirk.stant wrote:
On Feb 23, 3:27=A0pm, Brad wrote:
On Feb 23, 1:59=A0am, John Smith wrote:

Greenwell wrote:
However, I do notice an improvement in slow-speed handling with
my
winglets on.
Noel echos my experience, and it's not just in flight, but on the
gro=
und

The main benefit of winglets, especially for the older among us, is
tha=
t
we don't have to bow that much to pick up the wing.

and to the younger, they look bitchin'

Brad

Bah! Draglets!

Just stick your toe under the (beautifully unencumbered) wingtip and
lift your foot - voila, no bending required at all...

Anyway, if winglets were so great, why don't they have their own
winglets? - ad infinitum!

Kirk
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you want winglets on winglets (wingwinglets? wing2lets?) ... Stanford got
there first :-)

http://aero.stanford.edu/CWing.html

Doug