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Old 02-27-2006 | 02:30 PM
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Default RE: High wing with anhedral....

ORIGINAL: mesae

------ Isn't it also true that geometric anhedral partially inhibits spanwise flow, increasing effeciency to a point?

I am guessing that you consider anhedral to have an effect of "trapping" high pressure air beneath the wing -- air that would otherwise partially leak away spanwise, particularly as compared to a wing with dihedral. That effect would theoretically be there, but I doubt if you could even measure it with any confidence in normal flight. However, in very close ground-effect it would be real enough. The Ekranoplan uses that effect.