Howard; Have you ever seen anything like these on the back of an Orange Streamliner? Jack has been fooling around with his version of these and says they make a rear difference in the dust trail at E
As I remember Kenny Bernstien experimented with vortex generators for some time on his funny cars. Sort of a trial and error thing without a wind tunnel for testing. what the heck, that's why we hav
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 kil
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 he
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
RE: www.airtab.com - The smart way to cut the cost of your highwa y fuel Until about 6 years ago I used to take a summer leave from my airline job and fly helicopters. My last year I worked on a fire
BUG Splats!!! I flew gliders for years and a lot of the more advanced laminair flow air foils are very sensetive to the dead bugs. 15-20% less effiecient. wmts Quoting "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@t
Reminds me a situation back in the 70's. We got a call from a guy who had just bought a used Hughes 500C helicopter. He said the A/C would not perform per the spec.'s in the Flight Manual and the eng
Jack and I have talked about these things several times over the years and I had some molded transparent ones on my car this year. My *&^%&* video did not work again this year so I got no info to se
I had this same problem with my video camera..........Sound was fine but picture was so distorted it was worthless - Since video "noise" (distortion) can be caused by overloading the camera's microph
A few years back I asked Charles Kaman how he came up with the idea of using intermeshing rotor blades on his first helicopter design. He replied "It was obvious!" Well, maybe to him, but certainly