Sloping Off - June 2005
St. Louis Blues
by Mike Roach
St Louis is the patron saint of warps, mainly because of his range of aircraft which relied on wing-warping for lateral control. A recent article by Dr Mike Hawkins exposed the dangers of stalling the supposedly active wing in a turn, so this page is dedicated to all of us for whom a little expertise is a dangerous thing...
...as in this extract from Flight International for 3 May 2005:
“Possibly the most dramatic feature of the aircraft (the Boeing 787) is the unusually high upswept angle, or anhedral, of the wing”
