Piper Pilots! Ned Warrior help!

wrote:
: From my reading, you can actually get your stall speed down almost
: 10MPH by putting on every gizmo kit STC'ed for a Warrior. And at the
: same time, you'll be adding top end speed to the plane as you smooth
: out the airflow. Problem is -- you'll spend a fortune doing it !!!

: That is, if you believe all the hype from the people trying to sell these
: mods.

Lots of hype, but I can attest to the VG stall speed decrease... did a
before/after on the same day, same loading, same fuel, etc. Wingtips lowered it a
bit, but not as much as the VG's. I think a lot of people may think that it's all
cumulative, which it rarely is. You might get 3 mph for this, 3 mph for that, and 4
mph for both... not 6, etc. The way to make a plane go faster, stall slower, climb
faster, make margaritas, etc is to sell it and buy one that does it. Most mods do
*very* little for the expense they incur, and can only do so much anyway.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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