UNDERSTANDING WINGLETS TECHNOLOGY （了解机翼技术）.pdfVIP

UNDERSTANDINGUNDERSTANDING WINGLETS TECHNOLOGYWINGLETS TECHNOLOGY From the original idea of Fred George (B/CA) Properly designed winglets help tame wingtip vortices drag improve overall performance despite arguments to the contrary. Aircraft engineers would have us believe that aerodynamics is a mature science. If that were true, then pro and anti-winglet advocates might no be so strongly opposed. NASA s Richard T. Whitcomb invented these nearly vertical wingtip extensions in the early 1970s as a