REFLECTOR: Vortilions and/or VG's?

[jbujanda at dslextreme.com]

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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