motorgliders as towplanes

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:09:30 -0500, Jim Logajan wrote:

You're claim conflicts with that in the FAA "Pilot's Handbook of
Aeronautical Knowledge":

"Found on many gliders and some aircraft, high drag devices called
spoilers are deployed from the wings to spoil the smooth airflow,
reducing lift and increasing drag."

Printing it in some official or semi-official publication doesn't make it
right.

There is a question in the UK Bronze badge written paper about the
proportion of lift provided by the top and bottom surfaces of a wing
that's just as wrong. The so-called "correct" answer is 70/30, but as a
wing is a device for imparting momentum to an air mass its a meaningless
question.


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