Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Fuel Burn

Yes "low - er" drag but not by too much at those low speeds. Depends on at what speed does the aircraft switch over the drag profile from induced to parasitic. There your induced drag rules and larger aspect ratio, proper winglets, wing fences or anything that reduces tip vortices or boundary layer separation would be just as useful if not more.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, James Ferris <mijniljj@...> wrote:
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> You can't cruse a 747 at 70 MPH but it works good with a Luscomb and low fuel burn so I think you could 2.5 GPH with a rotex. And don't forget that lainar flow wing it will have much lower drag.




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