PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - winglets
Thread: winglets
View Single Post
Old 27th Sep 2006, 00:52
  #14 (permalink)  
barit1
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: flyover country USA
Age: 82
Posts: 4,579
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The sailplane folks often refer to "span loading" (gross wt./unit span) as a measure related to spanwise flow. Bigger span => lower span loading => less spanwise flow.
barit1 is offline  
Reply