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Old 11th March 2012 | 21:56
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Flash131
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these wings have stronger tip vortices to work with
FlightPathOBN: Sorry, my wording was less than rigorous. I was really alluding to the spanwise gradient of the lift distribution at the tip tending to be steeper if the wing is outboard loaded. There is therefore likely to be a bigger gain to be had from diffusing the tip vortex and/or shedding the vorticity out of plane.

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