The original flight manual has the usual single polar curve, based on the
glider being flown at optimum flap setting for any speed.

Having flown a Mosquito for more than a decade, I have often investigated
the question about turbolators. Every knowledgeable person I have spoken to,
has told me that the Wortmann FX-67-Kxxx wing section (also used for the
Nimbus, DG-200 and others) was never designed for turbolators. Adding them
will almost certainly do more harm than good. The section has to be designed
for turbs in order to gain from them.

Happy Soaring,
Lars Peder

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"Shawn" sdotherecurry@bresnananotherdotnet wrote in message
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root wrote:
Shawn wrote:

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Flap settings? Turbulatoers?


I don't have any info about that. Anyway in most flight manuals
for flapped gliders I have seen, there is only one polar (or zero)
for the whole speed range, the glider being assumed to be flown
in every part of this range with the "appropriate" flap setting.
I think it is a bad thing, as only from separate polars for each flap
setting can this appropriate flap setting be deduced, but things are
what they are.

I agree. Given no other information that's what I'd assume too. Do you
know if that data reflects the use of turbulators? My understanding of
Mosquito history is that once the need for turbulators was recognized it
significantly changed the performance and "personality" of the glider.

Shawn