{"id":192656,"date":"2009-03-08T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/thick-flying-wing-for-uavs-faces-windtunnel-tests\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T11:12:00","slug":"thick-flying-wing-for-uavs-faces-windtunnel-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/thick-flying-wing-for-uavs-faces-windtunnel-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick flying wing for UAVs faces windtunnel tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img9.imageshack.us\/img9\/8951\/getasset.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Interesting new aerodynamic concept here, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/04\/323217\/thick-flying-wing-for-uavs-faces-windtunnel-tests.html\">very thick wing with slots in it to improve lift to drag ratio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue if it will work, though there is rather a lot of analysis that indicates that it might, but given the non-aerodynamic advantages of a thicker wing in terms of structure and volume, it is an intriguing concept.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this could be tied with some sort of bleed air technologies to work as control systems too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting new aerodynamic concept here, a very thick wing with slots in it to improve lift to drag ratio. I have no clue if it will work, though there is rather a lot of analysis that indicates that it might, but given the non-aerodynamic advantages of a thicker wing in terms of structure and volume, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192656","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\/192656"}],"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=192656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}