ORIGINAL: CraigG
ORIGINAL: highhorse
Split flaps create more lift than a simple hinged flap (aileron) for the same surface area. When using ''aileron'' in that config you essentially have a split flap acting in opposite directions on each wingtip rather than an aileron as we know them.
Do I get a cookie, or perhaps a star on my test to show mom when I come home?
Don.
Never thought of it that way but I get the idea. Guess I still don't understand why a split flap creates more lift than a ''simple'' flap. I need a layman's explanation before you get the cookie.
Craig
Howdy Craig, I suppose I'm gonna have to buy my own cookie then
cus I don't have the explanation. I just have a texbook reference stating that the flap styles in order of effectiveness for increasing the c/l are, in ascending order, "plain", split, and fowler.