A residence time model for a rotating drum with lifting flights which includes axial displacement of airborne particles due to the drag of the gas stream has been developed in Part I of this study (Sherritt et al., 1993). Because the particles fall in curtains, the equations for single particle drag overestimated the effect of the gas stream on the displacement of the falling particles. In this paper, large scale wind tunnel experiments, which involved pouring a curtain of particles into a gas stream, indicated that the shielding effect of the curtain could be represented by a lower-than-average gas velocity within the curtain. The magnitude of the curtain shielding effect is related to the flight discharge rate, the fall distance and the flight length. Incorporating the results of the experiments into the residence time model provides a significant improvement on the effect of the gas velocity, and hence the best model available, especially for industrial-scale equipment.