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Old January 15th 15, 11:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Ron Gleason
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Default Split Scimitar Winglets

On Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:22:57 UTC-7, Papa3 wrote:
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 2:50:57 PM UTC-5, Papa3 wrote:
SW was a launch customer...

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2...airplane.html/


A friend flies for SW and he says they make cross wind landings a bit trickier as it is harder to hold the crab angle. Plus no one want to the first one to damage the $1mil+ winglets by scraping them on the ground