Fairing
A streamlined cover over a joint or around angular parts of an aircraft intended to reduce drag.
Fillet ...
Fairing - A smooth covering over a joint or a junction in an aircraft structure to provide a smooth surface for the airflow. Its primary purpose is to reduce drag.
Fairing A shaped area used to smooth out, streamline, or "fair", the joint between two members of an airplane. A wing fairing joins the wing and fuselage.
FAIRING - An added streamlining structure or auxiliary member, most often of light metal, whose only purpose is to reduce drag.
Fairing. A secondary structure added to reduce drag. Common examples of fairings are wing-root fillets and streamlining of struts.
Fairing.-Building up a member or part of the plane with a false piece that it may have a stream-line body.
7. Wings, Planes, Panels.
The fuselage was long and cylindrical, with fairings towards the rear giving it a flattened look, and it had thick wedge-shaped dorsal and ventral fins. Parts of the fuselage were made of a heat-resistant nickel-based alloy (Inconel-X 750).
Inspect the nose wheel and fairing. The nose wheel strut and tire should be properly inflated. There should be about two inches of nose wheel strut exposed and no significant leakage of oil from the strut.
Rolling assures that all chains are removed and serves as tire check for "flats" that may be concealed in the wheel fairings.
COWLING - The name of the fairing which, usually, encloses an engine.
CYCLIC PITCH CONTROL - Means of changing the pitch of a rotor's blades progressively, to provide a horizontal thrust component for flight in any horizontal direction.
In both flexible and rigid wings the pilot hangs below the wing without any additional fairing.
Class 2 (designated by the FAI as Sub-Class O-2) where the pilot is integrated into the wing by means of a fairing.
Fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of engines), and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls.
On preflight, I run my hand along the bottom of the rubber boot to check for leaking fluid. I also check the top of the mast fairing, because when the blades are parked aligned front/rear, a leaking blade grip will leak right onto the fairing.
To minimize the parasite drag it is desired to design in airfoil shape all aircraft parts such as struts, wheel fairing, etc. The two major contributors to parasite drag are the form drag and the skin-friction drag.
Check the trim tab and rudder hinges for any flutter (less is better), take a good look at rudder stops and rudder cables. Verify that fairings are attached properly with all screws in place, sometimes, ...
The performance numbers for a 125 hp engine are impressive. A 75% power cruise with its new wheel fairings comes out at 132 knots indicated at 5.5 gph.
An early installation of a Wolseley Viper engine. In this particular photo the top of the radiator is not the standard shape. Also the under wing fairing is shallower than on production Viper-powered aircraft.
This limit depends on many things, including drag force on the primary structure (wings, tail, landing gear etc.); drag force on secondary items (antennas, fairings, etc.); instability of the structure and control systems due to flutter; ...
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