PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Winglets..are they usefull?
View Single Post
Old 6th Feb 2006, 17:52
  #2 (permalink)  
John Farley

Do a Hover - it avoids G
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Chichester West Sussex UK
Age: 91
Posts: 2,206
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
It could be because winglets have disadvantages such as weight, cost, their own drag and increasing wing bending loads. Whether there will be a net benefit by employing them will presumably vary between types as well as the type of sortie they will be used on.
John Farley is offline