REFLECTOR: Wheel Pants and speed?

[Kevin Baker]

Thanks Brett
Are you guys using any vortex gen? Or what did you find with them?
Not sure if I need to get any or not and thought you might have some experience with them.


Thanks
Kevin

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On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:35, "Brett Ferrell" <reflector at velocityxl.com> wrote:

> Kevin,
> 
> We haven't done anything that I would consider a test, but we did notice a very large difference once we put the pants on our XL.  The mains were worth at least 10 kts on thier own, but also seemed to affect the deck angle and float on landing (my theory is the drag and cleaner air getting to the make the difference) quite a bit.  The nosewheel was worth a few more (we threw it off in a hard landing and are about to paint and reinstall it).
> 
> It was so different that we were convinced our Catto prop was totally overpitched until we got the pants on, at which point it just kept spooling up to 180+ kts.  We haven't let it run all the way outt yet, so I'm not sure what our max speed is, and we'll be changing to a constant speed prop soon anyway.
> 
> Brett
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if anyone had done any tests on the speed diff on the FG in relation to with wheel pants on vs off.
> (ie- what sort of diff in cruise speeds are seen?)
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin Baker
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