Wing aero

[flyboy2160]

A totally useless suggestion. That's a moving aero surface. Next......

[FW17]

^
No. Everything has a tolerance in F1 regulations

[ArgyrisB]

What wing was more effective? Pre-2009 front wings that didn't have the Y250 vortex or post-2009 when the rule for the central section of the wing was applied?

[SectorOne]

Here's a great video showing the vortices on the tips of airplane wings as it lands into a fog bank. This is what the aero engineers want to avoid in some areas (i.e. upper tips of the rear wing) and create in others (i.e aroung the floor).

http://youtu.be/QZkggFzAtEc

And it is cool to boot.

This is probably the best one i´ve seen when it comes to vortices, amazing.

[shelly]

From the always good Gordon McCabe:


http://mccabism.blogspot.it/2015/03/mcl ... -2003.html

an extract from a thesis on front wing tip vortices, written in 2006 by Jonathan Pegrum, now aero team leader at McLaren

[chuckdanny]

Excellent thread, i just discovered.