Recent flight and wind tunnel evaluations of winglets mounted on general aviation airplanes have shown improvements in cruise fuel efficiency, and climbing and turning performance. Some of these analyses have also uncovered various effects of winglets on airplane handling qualities. Retrofitting an airplane with winglets can result in reduced cross wind take-off and landing capabilities. Also, winglets can have a detrimental effect on the lateral directional response characteristics of aircraft which have a moderate to high level of adverse yaw due to aileron. Introduction of an aileron-rudder-interconnect, and reduction of the effective dihedral by canting-in of the winglets, or addition of a lower winglet can eliminate these flying quality problems.


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    Titel :

    Effect of winglets on performance and handling qualities of general aviation aircraft


    Beteiligte:
    Van Dam, C. P. (Autor:in) / Holmes, B. J. (Autor:in) / Pitts, C. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Aircraft Systems Meeting ; 1980 ; Anaheim, CA


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1980-08-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch