Hi Oscar, Ashok Gopalarthnam, who designed the new KR airfoils, developed a program much like what he used to design the airfoils to design the contours of intersecting surfaces. An example that he used in his paper was winglet design.
I would love to see him do his magic on the wing fuselage junction. I think there is more to be gained in reducing the drag caused by the less than optimum shaping of the fuselage and its intersection with the wing than there is in adding winglets. I think winglets would provide benefits in reducing drag in the climb and at high altitudes. Not exactly where KR's spend most of their time. Now, putting winglets on an RV - that is something to think about :-) Hey Dana, that black RV would look real cool tooling around the flight levels with winglets just like the big boys :-) Steve Eberhart mailto:newt...@newtech.com RV-7A - finally working on the second wing panel Oscar Zuniga wrote: > Langford wrote- > >> What I'd like to see is winglets retrofitted to an existing plane, and >> then report back on the differences in all flight regimes. > > > Hey, maybe Troy Petteway's plane will have a little mishap requiring him > to rebuild his wings again, and we'll see the winglets?! However, the > guy is such an avid experimenter that I wouldn't put it past him to pull > an all-nighter with his skunk works buddies and slap some winglets on > his plane just like that. > > Oscar Zuniga > San Antonio, TX > mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com > website at http://www.flysquirrel.net > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
