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NASA will test folding wings to reduce the drag
Nasa is investigating whether folding the wing in flight could save more fuel. This study is called Spanwise Adaptive Wing … Continue reading
Preliminary sizing – Matching Chart
Introduction This article introduces the first step in the preliminary sizing process, which is to determine the so-called aircraft … Continue reading
Orbit Perturbations
Orbit Meccanics: 1) Conic Sections 2) Orbital Elements 3) Types of Orbits 4) Newton’s Laws of Motion and Universal … Continue reading
Posted in Orbital Mechanics
Tagged -, Atmospheric, body, drag, due, Earth, from, Non, orbit, Perturbations, spherical, Third, to
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Winglets
Wingtip devices are usually intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft. There are several types of wingtip devices, and although they function … Continue reading
Posted in Wing
Tagged aerodynamic, aircraft, airflow, downstream, drag, edge, ellipse, Elliptical, induced, lift, spanwise, trailing, vortex, wing, WINGLET, WINGLETS, WINGLETS WINGLET wing aircraft, wingtip
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