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Spiroid Wingtips

Postby SeanTK » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:55 am

Stumbled upon this photo today, and have never heard of the concept before. It's certainly unique!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Dassault ... 1749946/M/

More info:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/fligh ... y-the.html
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby Keep It Simple » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:54 pm

Very interesting. :)
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby B-Valvs » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:18 pm

Saw that picture on A.net last night. It is pretty cool technology.

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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby Hagar » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:23 pm

That distorted photo is misleading. I'm not a great advocate of fisheye effects either in RL or FS. This one shows what it really looks like. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Dassault-Falcon-50/1749948/L/
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby B-Valvs » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:32 pm

That distorted photo is misleading. I'm not a great advocate of fisheye effects either in RL or FS. This one shows what it really looks like. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Dassault-Falcon-50/1749948/L/


I know. When I saw the first one last night I was like, "What the...." Then I looked at your picture a few minutes later and was like, "oh okay."  :D

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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby SaultFresh » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:09 pm

One of my friends found a video, haha

http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2009/05/spiro ... -test.html
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby machineman9 » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:21 pm

It kind of looks like they forgot to bolt something to the airframe in those compartments when the aircraft left the factory  ;D

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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby Mitch. » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:27 am

I wonder how much difference they actually make. Looks more drag inducing then anything.
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby patchz » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:51 pm

[color=#000000]I know I'm going to catch it for this, but I have to ask. Do they have little bottles of liquid soap attched to create bubbles?
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Re: Spiroid Wingtips

Postby B-Valvs » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:45 pm

[quote][color=#000000]I know I'm going to catch it for this, but I have to ask. Do they have little bottles of liquid soap attched to create bubbles?
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