Jim
Thanks. I'm sure it is, but my colleagues and I will find it interesting to
see. It's not something, I believe, that we have on military aircraft; I would
guess that it adds to the drag, in certain circumstances, and therefore is more
a cost than a benefit for some sorts of aircraft. Our job is to teach about
flying and we might use such a wing to teach about boundary layer and other
aspects of aerodynamics.
My colleagues have flown all sorts of different machines: Puma, C130, other
training aircraft. In addition we have airline pilots who come to fly
part-time to provide air experience for air cadets and they will know about
such mechanisms. The owner of the Baron that is parked at Wyton is such a
pilot, a RAF air defence pilot before he took up his current career.
I'll report back . . .
Chris
On 20 Jul 2012, at 22:43, Jim Nichols wrote:
> You made me curious, so I did some online research. The installation I saw
> on the Baron appears to be the one provided by an STC owned by D'Shannon
> Aviation of Buffalo, Minnesota, approved in 1992. I did not read all of the
> 45 pages, but it appears applicable to almost all models of the Baron.
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