{"id":191442,"date":"2009-08-16T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/16\/gee-its-not-only-boeing-that-has-wing-drop-issues\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T10:22:00","slug":"gee-its-not-only-boeing-that-has-wing-drop-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/16\/gee-its-not-only-boeing-that-has-wing-drop-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, It&#8217;s not Only Boeing that Has Wing Drop Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img35.imageshack.us\/img35\/3586\/5798442f04924b548f8c568.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>When I interviewed with Lockheed-Martin Fort Worth in the late 1990s, I talked with 3 or 4 people, and they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> took pot-shots at the recently discovered problems with wing drop on the then new F\/A-18 E\/F Super Hornet.<\/p>\n<p>In tight turns in the transonic range, there would be unequal lift generated because the shock wave locations would be slightly different, and so you would get wing drop.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/05\/330590\/lockheed-martin-develops-wing-spoiler-for-f-35c-flight.html\">that the F-35 JSF is at risk of the same behavior<\/a>, at least for the extended wing CTOL carrier C model (also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A0b0deaf6-9d68-48f1-82c9-f67414e42786\">here<\/a>), so they have put some spoilers outboard of the wing fold (see picture) just in case they cannot deal it with flap scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>In the scheme of things, it&#8217;s not a particularly big deal, but considering the constant razzing the boy in Fort Worth gave Boeing over the Super Bug, it is a bit amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I interviewed with Lockheed-Martin Fort Worth in the late 1990s, I talked with 3 or 4 people, and they all took pot-shots at the recently discovered problems with wing drop on the then new F\/A-18 E\/F Super Hornet. In tight turns in the transonic range, there would be unequal lift generated because the shock &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}