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Re: Flettner Strip Lengths/sizes: altitude oscillations

Subject: Re: Flettner Strip Lengths/sizes: altitude oscillations
From: Miles McCallum <milesm@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:07:45
The effect you describe is exactly like that of the prototype without
flettner strips: I suspect that by having a gradual transition from the tab
to the strip, the boundary layer is following the contour, whereas the
intension is to punch out - try a temporary addition with a steeper slope
(possibly just a piece of ali taped to the trailing edge so that it projects
another 1/8" either side - up and down) and if that works, you may have to
redo them with a definite change in section/slope...

M



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