REFLECTOR: Vortilions and/or VG's?

[Carl Hoffman]

When I ordered my kit in 1995, I was given a choice of building a canard with upward
or downward tips. I don't know if there is a different effect.

I flew for some time without VG. They lower the lift off and landing speed. They
lessen the tendency of a standard wing RG to wallow.

I have lower winglets, because I built my wings, and the manual said put them back on
during construction.

Carl Hoffman

jbujanda at dslextreme.com wrote:

> What has been the effect of downward canard tips?
>
> Jorge Bujanda
>
> hoffman3 at erols.com
> > I have Vortilons, VG, and lower winglets. In addition I have canard tips
> > that turn downward. I like all four of them.
> >
> > Carl Hoffman
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Ron Brown romott at adelphia.net
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:25:31 -0400
> > To: reflector at tvbf.org
> > Subject: REFLECTOR: Vortilions and/or VG's?
> >
> >
> > I am just about finished painting my 173 Elite RG.
> >
> > I have 170 hours of flight using only VG's - no vortilions installed.  I
> > removed the VG's to paint the plane.
> >
> > Anybody have any comments on flying without VG's or Vortilions?  Or if
> > both
> > the Vortilions and VG's should be installed.
> >
> > My feeling is that my plane flew great with just VG's installed - but I
> > never flew it without VG's.  I installed them as soon as I got home from
> > factory Velocity transition training.  The trainer was a 173 and it had
> > VG's
> > installed.  It flew GREAT!
> >
> > Thanks for your opinions!
> > Ronnie
> >
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