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Craymondw(at)aol.com Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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How much speed is added with pressure recovery wheel pants and where do you purchase them?
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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I have recently purchased a set from Van's. I think the cost was about 375 and includes some really nice aluminum brackets that are preformed. A guy on the Van's Air force site offers the replacement brackets in stainless but, I see no reason to go that way. Fitting is underway so...no flight test yet. Some RV guys that have converted from the old design that is similar to the glasair pants claimed a eight MPH increase. Our planes are faster anyway and the increase should be even more.
I am unaware of a nose wheel pressure recovery pant, but the two main wheel pants are well made and very light for the size. RObin 286YM
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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My Glasair 2S FT cruises around 210 mph (at) 8.500 feet. Several years ago I dropped a center line, center firewall and tail, on my concrete hanger floor. Then I dropped two plumb lines from the plane to the center line. Then I ran two parallel lines that went through the main wheel line. After doing that I was surprised to find that the rears of my both main wheel pants where off center by three inches. I readjusted the pants and and had to readjust my rudder trim. After performing those three adjustment I picked up close to 10 mph. I friend had a wind tunnel test performed on his plane and found the wing fairing dragged down the plane. Glasairs without wing fairing's are generally faster than Glasairs with them. A Stoddard Hamilton engineer informed me that he had a wing fairing retro fit that would add 15 mph to the cruise. But six months later Stoddard Hamilton went belly up. Glasairs should be just a fast as Lancairs, but unfortunately the factory have offered no improvements to the design. The other problem is weight. Glasairs are built like tanks and if the spar, skins and landing gear was offered in carbon fiber, a few hundred pounds would be shed.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:54 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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I haven't made a decisioin yet but some glasair guys are claiming 10kts. You can order the vans front wheel pants from them. I think it''s about $140. All together all three are about 400.
Steve
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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A Stoddard Hamilton engineer informed me that he had a wing fairing retro fit that would add 15 mph to the cruise.
Was it Bob Gavinski that had developed the fairing. If so, he may can be contacted.....15MPH is worth the small amount of work to change. RObin 286YM
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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Robin, it was that young engineer that developed the carbon fiber wing for the Aurora.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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Robin, it was that young engineer that developed the carbon fiber wing for the Aurora.
I saw the wing at Oshkosh and it was Bob that demonstrated the weight and strength when I was in the booth. Last I heard Bob Gavinski was a corp. pilot.....Bruce. Are you still in contact with Bob? RObin
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Pressure recovery wheel pants |
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No, I haven't seen or heard from Bob since SH went belly up.
Bruce
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