REFLECTOR:VG's

[Chuck Jensen]

Simon,
Simon,

When you say you "So I added a row of VGs in front of the aillerons just
about where the factory template says to put them", do you mean there is a
template for adding the VGs just ahead of the ailerons or did you mean the
factory's standard VG pattern down the top of the wing that most of us copy;
kind of?    

Chuck Jensen

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-admin@tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-admin@tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Simon Aegerter
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 5:44 PM
To: reflector@tvbf.org
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR:VG's


>Simon Aegerter has already done that.
>
Indeed, I have - well, sort of.
Spruce Creek is a tricky strip to land on. Lots of trees, hangars and 
gaps in between - lots of lateral control required and the Velocity 
just didn't seem to deliver that unless I landed it fast. So, I 
decided to do something about it and VGs seemed the way to go.

By the way: kudos to Brian Michalk for his very vivid discription on 
how they work.

 Since I was not so much 
interested in lowering the lower speed limit than to improve the 
controllability at landing speed, I didn't put VGs on the canard.

Well, the result is: it feels a lot more responsive. For a physicist 
this is a terrible result, isn't it? Gimme the numbers!! right? Fact 
is, I don't have them. For a number of reasons, I didn't have the 
opportunity to fly the Velocity since these first "feeling flights" 
and will not for a while, so I hope Jim Sower can figure out a 
quantitative test program. I am pretty sure the results would reduce 
the incidence of landing accidents.

Best
Simon
-- 
Simon Aegerter, Wollerau, Switzerland
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