The latest offshoot of the European military aircraft corporation is the C296 W in which the W stands for winglets. Carried out on the factory-owned C-295, the modification has proved that in spite of the added weight (30 kilos for wing reinforcements and 60 kilos for the composite winglets themselves, and their metallic attachments), the treatment, in conjunction with new PW127 powerplant rating increase hot-and-high performance, as well as lift/drag ratio. As a side boon, fuel consumption is expected to drop by between three and six per cent.
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