REFLECTOR: Vortilions and/or VG's?

Jim Sower canarder at frontiernet.net
Tue Jul 19 16:27:42 CDT 2005


Lower winglets and vortilons both address the same issue (spanwise 
flow).  I would not eliminate either one, and I would STRONGLY advise 
against eliminating them both.  That's every bit of spanwise flow 
restriction you've got. 
Why would you do that? ... Jim S.

Jack Sheehan wrote:

> Maybe since I do have the lower winglets the vortilons would not have 
> effect. I really don't have much experience in other Velocities but 
> Scott Baker has flown mine and H e didn't think I was missing much or 
> if he did he never said anything. The airplane takes a little rudder 
> in the turns at about 90kts and lands fine at 80kts.



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