Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 46 views

    Technical Notes. Katic) ML Advisory C9Mmittee For Aeronauti%3

    Uploaded by

    pravi2010
    This technical note summarizes an investigation into the effect of raked wing tips on lift, drag, and efficiency. Wings from an RAF 6-section wing were tested with various angles of rake from -40 to +40 degrees. It was found that rake had little effect, but positive and negative rakes of 30 degrees performed best with about a 0.1 increase in L/D ratio compared to unswept tips. The conclusions indicate that wing tip form should be determined based on strength and aileron considerations rather than aerodynamic effects.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Technical Notes. Katic) ML Advisory C9Mmittee For Aeronauti%3

    Uploaded by

    pravi2010
    46 views7 pages
    This technical note summarizes an investigation into the effect of raked wing tips on lift, drag, and efficiency. Wings from an RAF 6-section wing were tested with various angles of rake from -40 to +40 degrees. It was found that rake had little effect, but positive and negative rakes of 30 degrees performed best with about a 0.1 increase in L/D ratio compared to unswept tips. The conclusions indicate that wing tip form should be determined based on strength and aileron considerations rather than aerodynamic effects.

    Original Description:

    hai im praveen

    Original Title

    19930080858

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This technical note summarizes an investigation into the effect of raked wing tips on lift, drag, and efficiency. Wings from an RAF 6-section wing were tested with various angles of rake from -40 to +40 degrees. It was found that rake had little effect, but positive and negative rakes of 30 degrees performed best with about a 0.1 increase in L/D ratio compared to unswept tips. The conclusions indicate that wing tip form should be determined based on strength and aileron considerations rather than aerodynamic effects.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    46 views7 pages

    Technical Notes. Katic) ML Advisory C9Mmittee For Aeronauti%3

    Uploaded by

    pravi2010
    This technical note summarizes an investigation into the effect of raked wing tips on lift, drag, and efficiency. Wings from an RAF 6-section wing were tested with various angles of rake from -40 to +40 degrees. It was found that rake had little effect, but positive and negative rakes of 30 degrees performed best with about a 0.1 increase in L/D ratio compared to unswept tips. The conclusions indicate that wing tip form should be determined based on strength and aileron considerations rather than aerodynamic effects.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 7

    TECHNICAL NOTES. KATIC)ML ADVISORY C9MMITTEE FOR AERONAUTI%3.

    No. 69.

    AN INVESTIGATION OH THE EFFECT OF RAKED ViING TIPS. By F. H. Norton. Langley Eemorial Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Comitfiee for Aermau%ics, Langley Fieldz Va.

    November, 1921.
    .
    q

    NATIONAL ADVISORY CO?Q41TTEE F@R AER9N.4UTICS, TECHNICAL NOTE NO. 6S.

    By
    F. H.
    Ncrton.

    Langley Memorial Aerona.utioalLaboratory,


    q

    inv~sti~ation cas carried out by request SUrmnarv. 1:lis -

    of

    the United States Air Service in the wind tunnel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The results aze here Fublished by the National Advisory Co~mzitteefor Aeronautics as it is thought that they uaybe of general interest. Wings of the R.A.F. 6 section are tested with various angles of rake, and it is found . that although rake has very little effect, a positive or negative rake of 30 is the best. Introduction. There has %en vezy little work done on the careful investigation of wing tip form. For reason the pses-. ent %est was carried out to investigate the influence of cake
    this

    rhen the aspect ratio is.held constant.


    .

    The anglesof rake tested

    rere

    00 + 20 * 40.

    A greater angle of rake than this would be

    structurally inpractioal. Only lift and drag runs were made. An investigation of zounded wing tips has been made by the
    .

    l?ritishAdvisory Committee (T.4?7) and some work along this line has been done by Eiffel. Methods.- A qkort se~t~on of an R.A.F. 6
    w~g

    #
    was fastened ~o

    the crank spindle of the N. P. L. bal-~ce and the nwious


    1

    tip sec-

    . .

    -2,

    tions (Fig. I-) viwrs Pinned onto the ends of it. Due to the use of the crank spindie tb.edrag readings are tco
    I 1017, hut as only

    comparative values were desired no corrections were made. Preoision.- As the differences between the vari~us rakes were small, each set of wing tips was set and run three separate tines: and the mean values taken. than . ~. , - The lift, drag and L/D are plotted in Figs. 2, 3, It is evident that the effic. and 4, for various angles of r*e.
    one

    The precision is everywhere better


    ..

    percent.

    iency inoreases slightly with rake up to about 30 and then de1 creases, while the lift inoreases rather rapidly at large positive rakes. The increase in L/D at 4 incidence by using a 30 rake,
    ~0.

    as compared with a square ti~, is about

    Conclusions. It may be concluded that the effect of rake on the lift and drag are so snail that considerations of
    stretigth

    and aileron efficiency should govern the wing tip form.

    ,. >~

    ,,u.

    ,.

    - - e a I pPofJidve rake. t -J ,,, 1 ~ ,. -


    q

    Same radius for .eve~y an le of f r~ke-poa ti.ve and negatiVG

    Posi$ive rake

    P u w =

    ., ,. d. ?ii~~ ~ ;?

    - Varying rake -

    , CJN.

    Experiment 4 ,AF6T?+-+-Section , , ,_
    I

    Mean aspect ratio - 6 Spanwing - [ 1 -} = 16,50%n

    I
    Negative

    &ake

    Mean spnm. [wings-2-3-4-5-}_ i6,P4 in, Area- (constant)=45.4 sq,in. Chord-(aonetmt )= j.75 in. Fig. 1
    ;,, ,. ..,,, .,, ,,, ,., ,.. . ,

    --1-----p - I
    I
    I

    Negative xhke - ~-y ~


    4

    ----

    0.9

    0.8

    0.7

    0.6

    50.4

    0.3
    . .

    0.2

    0.1

    0.0
    *

    -40
    Fig. 2.

    -20

    +200

    +40

    Angle of rake.

    0.(39

    0.08

    0.07

    ~ .. - . --l , J-L+--- ~< ~~o

    .. -.

    1- . .

    t
    i

    + i - -l 0-06 ; 1
    . +_
    ..

    12

    ~. .

    2
    II i -. I 1 .

    i
    !

    .rl

    -. .

    . -
    -- .

    I --
    !

    -:;;
    8 [ .
    _~o
    I .-

    -1I

    0.03
    ( . .,

    0.02

    h . ..20 J

    40

    0.01
    .
    b

    . [
    -200
    Angle

    r
    00

    I .

    0.00
    ,. .

    -400 Fig. 3.

    +200

    +40

    of rake.

    -)

    24 22
    20

    18

    16

    14

    :12 10

    4 , 2

    -@o

    -20 Angle

    00

    +20 rake. -

    +43

    Fig.
    ..

    4.

    of

    You might also like