Hide/Show Archive Navigation.

All News

September 14, 2006

ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (09.14.06): Wing Loading

Aero-Tips!

Different airplanes handle differently. That should be pretty obvious, but why is this so? There are many factors that affect an airplane's handling -- one of them is wing loading.

Aero-Linx!

Grab the popcorn and have a seat for Zeno’s Warbird video drive-in.

Aero-Terms!

Ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces (µ/L) and is used for determining whether airflow over a lifting surface will be laminar or turbulent.

"Normally, we register our aircraft in sequence, so that Star 5 was registered as 255SD -– "SD' for 'Sheriff's Department' -- Star 6 was 266SD, and so forth. However, we asked and received permission to register our new Star 8 as 288JK; JK standing for Joe and Kevin. It allows us to say that Joe and Kevin are onboard for every flight."

Source: Sacramento County Sheriffs Department Air Support Bureau commander Lt. Fred Links, on the department's purchase of a new Eurocopter EC120 to replace an aircraft lost in a July 2005 accident. The helo's registry honors the two officers lost in that accident -- SCSD Deputies Joseph Kievernagel and Kevin Blount.