{"id":191963,"date":"2009-05-31T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/31\/spiroid-winglets-enter-flight-test\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T16:42:00","slug":"spiroid-winglets-enter-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/31\/spiroid-winglets-enter-flight-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiroid Winglets Enter Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img269.imageshack.us\/img269\/4594\/spiroid6512007.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>This is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/27\/326996\/aviation-partners-targets-later-summer-for-second-generation-spiroid.html\">interesting technology<\/a>, both for its promise to reduce drag by 6%+, and for the very significant reduction in wingtip vortices that would allow for takeoff and landing spacing between aircraft to be significantly tightened up.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dBTGWDurHMU&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dBTGWDurHMU&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Earlier post from this, from last July, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/spiroid-wingtip-anyone-heard-of-them.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting technology, both for its promise to reduce drag by 6%+, and for the very significant reduction in wingtip vortices that would allow for takeoff and landing spacing between aircraft to be significantly tightened up. Earlier post from this, from last July, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191963"}],"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=191963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}