Alistair Gunn
August 19th 04, 06:26 PM
hobo twisted the electrons to say:
> At http://www.eurofighter.starstreak.net/ there is a picture on the
> first page of a Eurofighter from below. Above dorsal intakes is a long
> panel with marks on it that appear to be grills. Other airplanes with
> dorsal intakes such as the F-16 don't have the long panel and I am
> curious as to what it is for.
Isn't the panel just a splitter plate for the air intake? In which case,
the F-16 does have such a feature - it's just implemented by having the
air intake sufficiently vertically seperated from the boundary airflow?
(ie: The F-16, like the Eurofighter needs to avoid getting air from the
boundary layer into its air inlet, however it achieves this in a slightly
different manner.)
> I am also curious as to whether what appear to be grills are so, and
> if so what is their purpose?
GHowever, I'll confess to being totally stumped as to what those grills
might be ...
--
These opinions might not even be mine ...
Let alone connected with my employer ...
> At http://www.eurofighter.starstreak.net/ there is a picture on the
> first page of a Eurofighter from below. Above dorsal intakes is a long
> panel with marks on it that appear to be grills. Other airplanes with
> dorsal intakes such as the F-16 don't have the long panel and I am
> curious as to what it is for.
Isn't the panel just a splitter plate for the air intake? In which case,
the F-16 does have such a feature - it's just implemented by having the
air intake sufficiently vertically seperated from the boundary airflow?
(ie: The F-16, like the Eurofighter needs to avoid getting air from the
boundary layer into its air inlet, however it achieves this in a slightly
different manner.)
> I am also curious as to whether what appear to be grills are so, and
> if so what is their purpose?
GHowever, I'll confess to being totally stumped as to what those grills
might be ...
--
These opinions might not even be mine ...
Let alone connected with my employer ...