REFLECTOR: "V Channel"

[Al Gietzen]

Al where is the "V channel" for your overhead vent?
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Don't have one, John.  I have vents in the panel with small scoops on each
side under the canard.  I also have a small squirrel cage blower that
provides air when on the ground so I don't have to taxi with the door open.
That required designing and fabricating an automatic 'flow switch'.  It is
actuated by air pressure.  When air is coming in the scoop it automatically
closes off the port to the blower, and vice versa.

Rear seat air comes from small ports on the leading edge of the strake just
out-board of the door cut, (look closely at second photo) ducted to eye-ball
vents at the front of the strake cutout inside. Fairly high pressure there
at the stagnation point, so the flow is good and there is no drag.  Amazing
thing is it all works.

Al
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