A pilot's wing profile drag monitor system

Authors

  • Richard Johnson The City College of the City University of New York

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Design, Testing, Training

Abstract

Performance flight test measurements of modern high performance sailplanes have shown that their highly laminar wing airfoils are often subject to separation bubbbles, on both the upper and lower surfaces...  If one's sailplane has a bi-stable polar region, the probe can promptly inform the pilot as to which drag level they are flying....

Author Biography

Richard Johnson, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2018-02-02

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