Getting a Lift Out of Winglets
Aircraft engineers would have us believe that aerodynamics is a mature science. If that were true, then pro- and anti-winglet advocates might not be so strongly opposed. NASA's Richard T. Whitcomb invented these nearly vertical wingtip extensions in the early 1970s as a means by which wing lift-to...
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