wing levelers

My humour doesn't always come to its right in English not even Swedish. Some
people recognise it as humor. :-)

There was an article by Peter Masak on the net some years ago, I have saved
it on the puter at my office.

As an Captain you can always ref. to §1= Captain is always right. or
§2=if Captain is wrong, §1 is what rules. (not a good one in a plane)

Jan
www.jcpropellerdesign.com


"Morgans" skrev i meddelandet
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"Jan Carlsson" wrote in message

When I said "I think" I was very humble...

I also attempt to be humble. You can always find someone smarter, or
bigger, or stronger or ..... than yourself.

Regarding winglets I am an "expert" (definition of an expert is someone
that
have read what other have don :-)

Perhaps I have more reading to do.

Peter Masak did a great pioneer work on effective winglets. result was
winglets that didn't decrease performance at high speed as the large
earlier
winglets.

Winglets make the wing act like it was of greater span,

This I know.

the improvement is
larger then if the wing was lengthened the amount of the winglets
height.
And the increase in bending moment is smaller then the longer wing will
produce.

This I did not know.

Winglets and longer wings reduce the induced drag (that come from the
work
of producing lift) that work is harder at low indicated speed, =slow
speed
at low altitude, low indicated speed at high altitude and getting there.

So even an "high speed" jetliner will be helped by using winglets, it
spend
a long time at high weight climbing to economical cruising altitude,
there
it cruise at low indicated speed (what pilot see) or more correct low
dynamic pressure.

Do you have any suggestions that I could do some more reading? I hate it
when I am wrong! :-)
--
Jim in NC