REFLECTOR: Drag Reduction

[Darrell & Nora Kufalk]

Chris's initial testing was showing an increase in his cruse speed of 5 to
10 knots.  But unfortunately after long term testing and a few long cross
country flights the increase ended up to be insignificant.  I don't think he
has any regrets though.  He finished this mod in only about 6 weeks.  Now he
has one of the coolest looking aircraft.  Even sitting among a lot of very
cool looking aircraft last week.

 

Darrell

 

 

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:20 AM
To: reflector
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Drag Reduction

 

Yea, that's not the story he was sharing at Rough River, unless I
misunderstood him, so who knows.  I think that's what motivated the others
to be sure, but I'd swear he told Elizabeth and I 1 knot.  Maybe Darrell has
better information though.

 

Brett 

-- 
  Brett Ferrell
  bferrell at fastmail.fm

 

On Friday, October 07, 2011 10:50 AM, "Alex Balic"
<velocity_pilot at verizon.net> wrote:

> The drag reduction article claimed that Chris Esselstyn's IO-540, MK-IV RG
got a double digit drag reduction from the blended winglets.

 

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