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Tufting The Wing

I didn’t notice this at the time but, while working my way through some shots of the Alice taxi trials, I realized that the port wing is tufted.  Tufting is a simple but effective way to see how the flow is behaving on a surface.  It does need to be recorded, though, so I then looked for the camera and saw the blister up on the side of the fuselage that must contain the camera.  I don’t know whether they have been paying attention to the flow visualization while doing taxi trials or not.  They have had flaps down as well as up but, without the nose off the ground, maybe there has not been anything significant to see.  They sure aren’t saying and have other things to address after some of the testing issues.