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#15
October 11th 06, 10:19 PM
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Winglet sliced off?
Mike Schumann wrote:
Winglets aren't designed to produce lift; they are designed to reduce drag by minimizing wing tip vortices. Losing a winglet should have a pretty minimal effect on the lift of that wing. And according to the PDF posted in this thread, only in the vicinity of 5% or so drag reduction. Well, that's probably a pretty substantial fuel savings, but not a real big controllability issue. 
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