{"id":195493,"date":"2008-07-05T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/05\/spiroid-wingtip-anyone-heard-of-them\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T11:55:00","slug":"spiroid-wingtip-anyone-heard-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/05\/spiroid-wingtip-anyone-heard-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiroid Wingtip Anyone Heard of Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Aviation Partners is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/flightblogger\/2008\/06\/spiroid-wingtip-technology-the.html#more\">claiming that they are the neatest thing since sliced bread<\/a>, claiming something on the order of a 10% reduction of drag at cruise.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, it looks kind of heavy and it will increase wetted area, and hence skin drag, but you can&#8217;t trust your eyes on such things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/323919143.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/323919143.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Aviation Partners is claiming that they are the neatest thing since sliced bread, claiming something on the order of a 10% reduction of drag at cruise. Truth be told, it looks kind of heavy and it will increase wetted area, and hence skin drag, but you can&#8217;t trust your eyes on such &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-195493","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\/195493"}],"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=195493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}