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Old March 10th 06, 06:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting
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Earlier,

Richard Riley wrote:

These guys selling snake oil too?

http://www.star-tech-inc.com/papers/aiaa/aiaa.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/g66ln

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprin...lcode=je xbio
...


Not at all. They make a convincing case that carefully-implemented
multiple element winglets can reduce induced drag so as to improve best
L/D over some range of Cls, especially for wings with low aspect ratio.
What they don't try to do is sell such configurations as a panacea, a
"substitute for span."

As all good sailplane pilots know, the only substitute for span is
talent. The difference between the two is that you can _buy_ span.

Thanks, Bob K.

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Old March 10th 06, 07:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting
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Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Earlier,

Richard Riley wrote:


These guys selling snake oil too?

http://www.star-tech-inc.com/papers/aiaa/aiaa.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/g66ln

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprin...lcode=je xbio
...



Not at all. They make a convincing case that carefully-implemented
multiple element winglets can reduce induced drag so as to improve best
L/D over some range of Cls, especially for wings with low aspect ratio.
What they don't try to do is sell such configurations as a panacea, a
"substitute for span."

As all good sailplane pilots know, the only substitute for span is
talent. The difference between the two is that you can _buy_ span.

Thanks, Bob K.

While there was some discussion about heavy jet wings, the data in the
paper indicated that the tests were performed at very low Reynolds
Numbers - 161K to 300K.

Our light experimental usually run at least 3,ooo,ooo.

They are studying Eagle wings - not 747's...

Richard
 




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