Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel

Drafting, defined as "following someone/something in a manner to reduce your aerodynamic drag by traveling in air moving at a lower relative velocity" excludes this act.

If you feel it is drafting, please state the definition of drafting you are using, as I've not seen a definition of drafting that would include this.

It does not depend on mitigating detrimental vorticies. NASCAR drafting does, and the lead car gets the benefit from the reduced drag. This does not benefit the vehicle in the front and is the following car using a predicted vortex to its advantage, while traveling through otherwise undisturbed air. Thus "drafting" where the folower uses the lead car to "break the air" is not happening.

Rather than having to define "drafting" to a bunch of morons who are too stupid/lazzy to google, I'd rather discuss the efffect of this on commercial aircraft for the rest of us, flight lanes with airplane flocks saving fuel. Or discussions on how much the winglets affect this effect. But no, it's all a discussion of the definition of "drafting" with a bunch of google-illiterite people.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/lqf_NOVAMtE/air-force-lab-test-out-aircraft-surfing-technique-to-save-fuel

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