Comanche Wingtip Vortices

[EdFred]

Going through pictures from the fly-in last year, and stumbled across this:

 

[Pilawt]

Nice catch! Bet some butterfly in trail had a wild ride!

 

[Jaybird180]

Saweet

 

[Anthony]

Very cool. Do the tip tanks reduce the drag from these?

 

[skylanerg]

Fuel venting?

 

[SCCutler]

Fuel venting?

Naw - mach buffet!

 

[Everskyward]

Your airplane is BIG...

 

[EdFred]

Very cool. Do the tip tanks reduce the drag from these?

According to the STC paperwork, it is a net 0 drag.

Fuel venting?

Yeah, the tip tanks were full.

 

[EdFred]

Your airplane is BIG...

You know what they say about guys with big airplanes....

 

[Ted]

"Traffic, a heavy Comanche."

 

[AdamZ]

Thats very cool Ed.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Submit for POTW!

 

[AdamZ]

Great idea Troy!

 

[EdFred]

I'm not, and don't plan to, register.

 

[Henning]

See! There's proof! Chemtrails do exist!!! Art Bell was right!!!

 

[BillTIZ]

Looks like too much humidity for me!

 

[Henning]

Looks like mind controlling neurotoxins to me....

 

[flyingcheesehead]

That's why you need right rudder on takeoff - Only a vortex on the left wing on them Comanches!

BTW, if it were to be submitted for POTW, it'd probably lose to this one (though I don't know if this is getting submitted either):

Taken by Kent Wien, http://twitter.com/veryjr - Best northern lights he's ever seen, he says.

 

[wabower]

Paint flaking off.

Naw - mach buffet!

 

[denverpilot]

When I saw Kent's Northern Lights photo I kept thinking... "The Captain in that stupid Airbus has to sit on his hands to keep from touching anything!

 

[EdFred]

That's why you need right rudder on takeoff - Only a vortex on the left wing on them Comanches!

You sure about that?

 

[Dr. O]

Methinks, the copilot took one too many tabs of LSD during the preflight...

The Captain is sitting there thinking, "Damn, that Vulcan mind meld actually worked."

denny-o

cool pic, btw

 

[flyingcheesehead]

You sure about that?

Well, I can only see one on the left wing in the picture... Or at least it's a lot more obvious.

It was also what's known as a "joke."

 

[EdFred]

Well, I can only see one on the left wing in the picture... Or at least it's a lot more obvious.

It was also what's known as a "joke."

But if you think through it, there is a reason that only the left wing is venting.

 

[SCCutler]

Excess fuel returning to left wing tank?

 

[Henning]

Excess fuel returning to left wing tank?

It's on the sunny side of the plane so it can see how ugly it is and is fleeing from the plane

 

[AdamZ]

It's on the sunny side of the plane so it can see how ugly it is and is fleeing from the plane

ROLMAO Time for that paint job Ed.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

But if you think through it, there is a reason that only the left wing is venting.

Is that supposed to be a political joke?

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Excess fuel returning to left wing tank?

I've heard the Lycomings don't work that way...

I can't think of a reason, unless it really was a political joke!

 

[wabower]

I was wondering if the dog took the picture.

When I saw Kent's Northern Lights photo I kept thinking... "The Captain in that stupid Airbus has to sit on his hands to keep from touching anything!

 

[wabower]

Just remaining true to its well-documented tendencies?

But if you think through it, there is a reason that only the left wing is venting.

 

[Ted]

I've heard the Lycomings don't work that way...

There are a few Lycomings that have a fuel return, but it's installation-dependent. I believe that was something that some of the newer 6-cylinder Cessnas had in an effort to improve hot start characteristics. I also don't recall if it's a return to a single tank or if it goes through the fuel selector to return to the tank(s) you're pulling from.

However on the whole, it's not like a standard injected Continental that has a rather sizable fuel return to a single tank, such as on the 310 that returns fuel to the tips.