REFLECTOR: Wheel Pants and speed?

[Kevin Baker]

I wanted to thank everyone for all the great information and passing on 
the wealth of knowledge you have gained to the rest of us.
I really appreciate it.
VG here I come :-)

Kevin

On 9/19/2011 5:01 PM, Brett Ferrell wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Yes, we installed them on our fixed gear X, land really like them.  
> They're certainly not /required/, but we weren't happy with how 
> sluggish the ailerons were on landing.  The factory teaches to use the 
> rudders to bring up a low wing on landing, but the VGs make the 
> ailerons much more responsive so that you don't necessarily have to.
> They seemed to lower our stall speed by about 5 knots, and may have 
> taken a knot off of the top end (again, we haven't been really good at 
> checking the absolute top end, but it was about a knot from where we 
> typically maxed out).
>
> Fences would probably also work, but a local 'long wing' flyer has 
> those, and likes them, but he says that they work sooo well that the 
> plane wants to fly straight (it takes a fair amount of input to 
> initiate a turn).  Since we got most of what we wanted with the VGs, I 
> haven't elected to install the fences, though I made some off of the 
> templates that I got from Chris Martin's plane (Klaus Savier worked 
> with him to get those sized for the Velocity).
> VG Flight Summary - 
> http://www.velocityxl.com/content.php?1432-Flying-with-Vortex-Generators
> Video - http://www.velocityxl.com/media.php?do=details&mid=85 
> <http://www.velocityxl.com/media.php?do=details&mid=85>
> CCI - Where we bought ours http://abianconi.hypermart.net/Vortex.htm
> Installation - 
> http://www.velocityxl.com/content.php?1429-Installing-the-Vortex-Generators-on-Wings
> Brett
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Anyone with experience with VG's on an XL?
> >
> > Bob Wood
> > Sent from my iPad
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> To change your email address, visit http://www.tvbf.org/mailman/listinfo/reflector
>
> Visit the gallery!  www.tvbf.org/gallery
> user:pw = tvbf:jamaicangoose
> Check new archives: www.tvbf.org/pipermail
> Check old archives: http://www.tvbf.org/archives/velocity/maillist.html

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.tvbf.org/mailman/private/reflector/attachments/20110919/4ba7824c/attachment.htm>