Originally Posted by
Scuffers
OK, as an engineer, I am struggling to understand how winglets would make any difference to the loading on this fork?
My thinking is this, the plane's body mass has to be supported by the wings, makes no odds if the wings are bigger/smaller or more/less efficient, they still have to hold up the same mass.
No winglet and the wing tip will flap in the breeze.
Add a thing to the wing tip to stop it doing the flapping - where will that load go?
Now make that thing bigger and more loads will go to the same place - far from the wing tip!