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Old 11-11-2009 | 06:39 AM
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Default RE: Golf ball dimples

No, you're not the only ones. I implied that when I said there's such a variety in the type of turbulators or invigorators or whatever they call them in the full sized craft.

At one point it was popular in the free flight glider class to use forward supports to suspend an elastic thread in front of the leading edge to turbulate the flow before it even hit the leading edge. Quite a few FAI world class models used this option for a few years back in the 50's and early 60's. That's one option that I've never seen on a full sized airplane but that worked just fine on our models.

So yeah, there's certainly more than one road to Rome as the old saying goes.