Olympic Gliding

[Tony[_5_]]

Anyone have any idea what the L/D is of a ski jumper?

[Darryl Ramm]

On Feb 13, 10:16*pm, Tony > wrote:
> Anyone have any idea what the L/D is of a ski jumper?

Don't know but they have more km flown XC in the Olympics than the
PW-5.

Darryl

[Ralph Jones[_2_]]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:16:47 -0800 (PST), Tony >
wrote:

>Anyone have any idea what the L/D is of a ski jumper?

This reference gives wind-tunnel values up to 1.2:

http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/viewFile/2507/2355

rj

[John Smith]

> This reference gives wind-tunnel values up to 1.2:
>
> http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/viewFile/2507/2355

The paper states values up to 1.4.