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Streamline those struts for effeciency's sake!

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:31 pm    Post subject: Streamline those struts for effeciency's sake! Reply with quote
A friend passed this along to me after seeing my project.
 
Of course strut covers were already on my punch list. Wink
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftq8jTQ8ANE
 
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Streamline those struts for effeciency's sake! Reply with quote
the builder of my plane started out with only the round tubes.was flying for some time this way then covered with home made strut covers. made from lengths of alum. for house facias. (very light) and ends filled with foam seal. teardrop shape and trailing edges just lapped together and pop riveted every 1.5 inches. he said he got about 8mph increase in speed. only problem after several hundred hours of flying is the alum is fatigue cracking around the coupling bolt heads. the metal was deforming at speed around the heads.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:38 am    Post subject: Re: Streamline those struts for effeciency's sake! Reply with quote
They Really, Really work. I got 5-8mph increase in cruise and glide got much more stable.

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