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A search for blended winglets produced this\u00a0link<\/a> and this blog entry<\/a>. \u00a0Aviation Partners, the same folks who pioneered blended winglets and spiroid winglets are testing split blended winglets with scimitar tips. \u00a0I thought I could reproduce split blended winglets, but didn\u2019t feel the scimitar tips were necessary in the Reynolds environment of a butterfly.<\/p>\n

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The design uses the barnaby platform, with the tapered-fold leading edge to thin out the tips of the wings.\u00a0The taper fold was made using a traditional fold of half in each direction, then, unfolded, I folded in the corners at the front, cut them off, and tucked them in when folding up the leading edge, to get the weight up front.\u00a0 The wing is thick in the middle and thins toward the end. <\/span> The inital flight went about 25 feet ruler-straight down a back hallway. \u00a0The second flight was equally straight. \u00a0This looks like a win.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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