-----Original Message-----
From: Albaugh, Neil
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 5:12 PM
To: 'Bob Bridge'; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: www.airtab.com - The smart way to cut the cost of your
highwa y fuel costs
Bob--coincidentally, I used to work for Kaman Aerospace, who recently
developed a utility lift helicopter called the K-MAX. It used an
intermeshing rotor configuration so that all of the engine power goes to
main rotor lift, not to a tail rotor. I wonder if you've ever seen one of
those? It's an odd- looking thing.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bridge [mailto:robabridge@home.com]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:55 PM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: www.airtab.com - The smart way to cut the cost of your
highwa y fuel costs
In reference to the critical wing. Years ( lots a years ) ago when I was
flying piston helicopters, gross weight was not something you thought about
but rather how much you could lift. When a very heavy lift would come, I
would clean all the bugs off the blades and wax them. Then you could lift
more than the next guy and therefore always had a job. That probably gives
a demo of how laminar separators can be effective. Then in later years
flying jets, vortex generators greatly changed the flying characteristics,
especially at flow separation. I would think the very fast guys are or
should spend as much time with drag/lift and airflow as they do with
engines.
Bob in Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: www.airtab.com - The smart way to cut the cost of your highwa y
fuel costs
> They sorta look like gizmos that detach the flow from a surface--
converting
> laminar flow to turbulent. Somewhere I read that on a "supercritical"
wing,
> dead bugs did the same thing and it really killed their lift. Anyone else
> heard that?
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:15 PM
> Subject: www.airtab.com - The smart way to cut the cost of your highway
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