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Airbus Invents Downward-Facing Winglet
Airbus has filed a patent for this downward-facing winglet device... (Images) (www.flightstory.net) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Pretty sure I have seen these on a Cessna aircraft but obviously a little smaller in scale.
Well, Cessna 172s have downward facing wingtip, some gliders have those as well but unlike Cessna and some gliders, none of those looks like the one the Airbus designed. It looks like B737 winglet faced downward.
The Cessna ones were for looks the only thing it added we found was wing area. We used honer style and found they worked better at Robertson STOL years ago. No one had thought of the winglet style then.
I would suspect the guys at Aviation Partners and Boeing itself had already looked at that configuration at least on computer models and discarded the concept in favor of the blended winglets....it will be fun to watch whether it works or not and if any patent is challenged.
I used to make paper airplanes and to make them look cooler than my friend's, I made downward facing winglets. I should have gone to patent it earlier...
If these are actually implemented, I wonder how long it will take for the first one to be taken out by a baggage or catering truck.