Download or read book The Calculation of Span Load Distributions on Swept-back Wings written by William Mutterperl and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Span load distributions of swept-back wings have been calculated. The method used was to replace the wing with a bound vortex at the quarter-chord line and to calculate the downwash due to the system of bound and trailing vortices to conform at the three-quarter-chord line to the slope of the flat-plate wing surface. Results are given for constant-chord and 5:1 tapered plan forms, for swee-pback angles of 0, 30 and 45 degresss, and for aspect ratios of 3, 6, and 9. Some comments on the stalling of swept-back wings are included.