Thread: Glider Wings on a 747?
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Old October 22nd 12, 10:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bart[_4_]
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Default Glider Wings on a 747?
On Oct 22, 8:00*am, Karl Kunz wrote:
Keep in mind the glide ratios you site are at idle thrust which is still significant. *Engines out glide would be somewhere around 12:1.

Just like our PW-2 GAPA! ;-)

B.