Ecco il primo A320 con le nuove winglet!
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Airbus begins A320 Family winglet research programme
5 April 2006
Airbus has begun flight-testing new fuel-saving winglets on its A320 testbed, with a view to making them available as an option on all of the A320 Family.
The trials, which began on 4th April with a five hour and five minute flight, will investigate two different designs of winglet, one designed by Airbus and the other designed by Winglet Technologies, a U.S. based company.
The new winglets potentially could replace the smaller, arrow-shaped, wingtip fences that grace the A318, A319, A320 and A321 today.
With the advent of more sophisticated analysis techniques, in particular in the context of A380 development, Airbus recently reviewed the application of more advanced methodologies to the A320 Family wing. This allows Airbus today to consider the application of new wing tip devices.
All winglets and wingtip fences work by acting as a barrier between the high-pressure air below the wing and the low-pressure air above it. They reduce the tendency of air to curl up into vortices at the wingtip and, in so doing, reduce drag - and hence fuel-burn - as well as improving aerodynamic efficiency leading to potential improvements in take-off and climb performance.
Airbus was the first airliner manufacturer to make extensive use of wingtip devices, which have been standard on all of its passenger aircraft since 1988, when they entered service on the A320.
Airbus has begun its flight-testing campaign of two winglet configurations on its A320 family that will also see a second design using an aircraft from the fleet of US low fares carrier JetBlue Airways.
Yesterday the airframer rolled out the first design of two "wing tip devices", fitted on to development aircraft F-WWBA, at its Toulouse headquarters (pictured below in flight). The first devices are large winglets resembling those fitted onto various Boeing types including the 737 Next Generation-based Boeing Business Jet 2. A second shipset of winglets is due to arrive in Toulouse later this month and will join the flight test programme in May.
A second design will be tested on an aircraft provided by JetBlue. The devices have been designed by Wichita, Kansas-based Winglet Technologies and is believed to be an elliptical winglet shape, similar to one developed for flight tests on a Bombardier Challenger 600.
Airbus will evaluate the performance and make a decision on whether to prograess with either design by the end of the year.
http://www.flightglobal.com
Yesterday the airframer rolled out the first design of two "wing tip devices", fitted on to development aircraft F-WWBA, at its Toulouse headquarters (pictured below in flight). The first devices are large winglets resembling those fitted onto various Boeing types including the 737 Next Generation-based Boeing Business Jet 2. A second shipset of winglets is due to arrive in Toulouse later this month and will join the flight test programme in May.
A second design will be tested on an aircraft provided by JetBlue. The devices have been designed by Wichita, Kansas-based Winglet Technologies and is believed to be an elliptical winglet shape, similar to one developed for flight tests on a Bombardier Challenger 600.
Airbus will evaluate the performance and make a decision on whether to prograess with either design by the end of the year.
http://www.flightglobal.com
... io ho un debole per le winglets.. per cui non faccio testo!
P.S. x Aggiano: scusa, ho il messenger fuori uso, sono senza da una settimana!!!
P.S. x Aggiano: scusa, ho il messenger fuori uso, sono senza da una settimana!!!
