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The tapered wings mentioned in the spiroid posts lends itself perfectly to blended winglets.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.airportjournals.com\/Photos\/0212\/X\/0212004_2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

The lack of sharp corners and thin tapered wings reduces both induced and parasitic drag.\u00a0 This plane stays up.<\/p>\n

First flight test:\u00a0 I was able to fly figure-eights and have the plane return to my hand.\u00a0 “Wow!\u00a0 Good job!” from a passerby.\u00a0 Launches into the wind gain about twenty to thirty feet of altitude; the plane\u00a0 holds the wind well, flies steady and straight into the wind\u00a0 and flies very fast downwind.\u00a0 Plane recovers nicely from building hits.\u00a0 Dihedral should be a little more than in the picture above.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried two versions of the blended winglet:\u00a0 taper in front and taper in back, and the taper in back, straight-up front flies better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tapered wings mentioned in the spiroid posts lends itself perfectly to blended winglets.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.airportjournals.com\/Photos\/0212\/X\/0212004_2.jpg The lack of sharp corners and thin tapered wings reduces both induced and parasitic drag.\u00a0 This plane stays up. First flight test:\u00a0 I was able to fly figure-eights and have the plane return to my hand.\u00a0 “Wow!\u00a0 Good job!” from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/howardfink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}