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Answer by Peter Kämpf for How do insects decrease aircraft performance?
You're right, insects are very small, so they influence things which happen on their scale. The one important phenomenon on an airliner which has the scale of insects is the boundary layer, the sheet...
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Answer by SentryRaven for How do insects decrease aircraft performance?
The issue here is not the additional mass or weight, but the disturbed airflow over the wings. The key terms here are laminar flow and turbulent flow.The below picture will show normal laminar and...
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Is it true that insects hitting the fuselage could decrease aircraft performance and increase fuel consumption? Insects are small in mass. I think even a large amount of them accumulate on the...
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