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Old 09-10-2003 | 08:09 AM
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Default RE: Large flat wing tips?
if you mean tip plates, i think they are to reduce the tip vortices caused by the airflow, increasing the efficiency of the ing tip and the aileron tips-better roll authority.

could this be the sort of thing you mean?
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