A320 airflow deflector
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A320 airflow deflector
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It's a 2" wide vortex generator used to eliminate the infamous A320 howl. I am writing a short case study about it in a book on aircraft mods. However, I don't have access to an A320, and I can't get an answer out of anybody who has posted pictures online about permission to use their pictures (this photo I can find on both Lufthansa and Airbus websites, but I can't get an answer from Lufthansa, and there's no obvious contact for Airbus).
Can anybody do me a good photograph or two of it, and (vitally to keep my publisher happy!) an email with it giving me permission to reproduce the photograph. My pprune mail box is permanently full, but I can be emailed on boffin at engineer dot com.
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It's a 2" wide vortex generator used to eliminate the infamous A320 howl. I am writing a short case study about it in a book on aircraft mods. However, I don't have access to an A320, and I can't get an answer out of anybody who has posted pictures online about permission to use their pictures (this photo I can find on both Lufthansa and Airbus websites, but I can't get an answer from Lufthansa, and there's no obvious contact for Airbus).
Can anybody do me a good photograph or two of it, and (vitally to keep my publisher happy!) an email with it giving me permission to reproduce the photograph. My pprune mail box is permanently full, but I can be emailed on boffin at engineer dot com.
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Performed that mod about this time last year, did have some pictures but not sure if I can find them, will try. There is also another vortex generator fitted on the inboard panel which doesn’t seem to be fitted on that aircraft, could just be the picture.
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Not unlike you blowing over the top of a bottle.
That little ridge ( vortex generator) will deflect the airflow sufficiently to fix it.
But I’m not an Airbus guru.
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A bit of info here a320 Whine
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Thanks guys.
I remember reading an interesting discussion regarding the BAE 146 flap noise, due if I remember rightly to the proximity of the flaps to the fuselage. Same problem, different cause.
I remember reading an interesting discussion regarding the BAE 146 flap noise, due if I remember rightly to the proximity of the flaps to the fuselage. Same problem, different cause.
