Airfoils of The Modern Era
Modern wing profiles are mainly designed for speed flight. At the moment the competition idea is also in the foreground in leisure flying. You want to fly as far as possible with moderate to good thermal conditions. The profiles are therefore slimmer, less curved and therefore have disadvantages in weak thermal conditions. However, these disadvantages are more than compensated because with speed profiles and thus better gliding rates, the pilot is offered more possibilities to find the next or better thermal.General ⇐ | ⇒ Wortmann-Airfoils