Chuck,
You were conducting the this "experiment" in a Experimental Certified
aircraft right? ;-) Otherwise you violated the type certificate of the
aircraft.
I hope you were alone and the FAA was not watching.

Michelle

PaulaJay1 wrote:

I did an interesting experiment in my Archer yesterday. I've read about the
wing washout and know the soft stall of my Archer but yeaterday I saw it.
Using small pieces of duct tape, I put eight, six inch ribbons on the left wing
- four along the leading edge, back about 10 inches, and four, 10 inches
forward of the trailing edge.

At 3,000 AGL, I slowly decreased speed while holding altitude. For the longest
time they all streamed. Then the most inboard aft "came loose". Just before
the break for the stall, all four close in ribbons were stalling and the four
out ribbons were still streaming. The Archer stall is mild and is a series of
scollops. The outside ribbons, in the area of the ailerons kept streaming.

I saw what makes this a forgiving plane and a good choice for the occasional
pilot.

Chuck



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