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Morgans wrote:
"cavelamb himself" wrote Which brings us all back to the question What Is It??? Rectangular wing or soemthing else? I recall being told rectangular, but only after all of the stall strip advice began flowing. As Barnyard said, probably no need to do anything with rectangular, but I would thing if it was found to be needed afterwards, adding a stall strip would be easy enough. Copy that. And AFTER test flying to see if it's necessary... Richard -- (remove the X to email) It's never too late to be the person you might have been. George Elliot |
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A few years ago I saw some photos from a company that made
strap on slats which could be placed on the outboard portion ahead of the ailerons to delay stalling in that area of the wing and preserve roll control further into the stall. |
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:34:20 -0700 (PDT), scottperkinsusa
wrote: A few years ago I saw some photos from a company that made strap on slats which could be placed on the outboard portion ahead of the ailerons to delay stalling in that area of the wing and preserve roll control further into the stall. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Any idea where the inventor/test pilot is buried? vbg - Barnyard BOb - |
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"Barnyard BOb" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:34:20 -0700 (PDT), scottperkinsusa wrote: A few years ago I saw some photos from a company that made strap on slats which could be placed on the outboard portion ahead of the ailerons to delay stalling in that area of the wing and preserve roll control further into the stall. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Any idea where the inventor/test pilot is buried? vbg - Barnyard BOb - My, my, you are such a lovable little fuzz ball! ;-) In theory, something like that should be have an effect similar to the slats on a Helio Courier--but locked in the open or deployed position. However, I really don't know how well or poorly it may have worked, and I suspect that it has been replaced by those little "delta" shaped leading edge vortex generators. I don't fully understand the theory on those either, although they certainly seem more promising than the older method of degrading the inboard portions of a wing to achieve the desired progression. If anyone has experience and/or theoretical knowledge, I beg to be enlightened. Peter |
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I believe the strap on slats you referred to, were actually
spoilers,strapped to the wing, to be used when the aircraft was tied down in windy conditions, to eliminate lift ,and airframe damage. |
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:39:03 -0700, "Rich S."
wrote: "cavelamb himself" wrote in message ... Just checkin' Some guys like to think it's the airfoil. Gotcha. It's a bit ironic. You go to all the trouble to build a neat looking elliptical wing (I love a Spit and a Jug for that reason) and you get a sharper stall than a plain jane rectangular wing. 'Taint fair! So, what's wrong with the sharper stall? You just learn to handle it. According to Ball's Book on Bonanzas the Early Debs don't have any washout (just a small stall strip) and they do have an abrupt stall with a strong tendency to drop a wing in the landing configuration. The stall is abrupt clean or in departure stalls, but predictable and easily handled with no altitude loss.. They are a "rudder only" airplane in the stall, but with practice you can learn to hold the yoke back and keep it stalled while using the rudder to keep it balanced. It does take practice and this is going far beyond stall recovery. When it drops a wing, you keep the ailerons neutral, ease off on the back pressure and stand on the opposite rudder to stop the turn. You do NOT shove the nose down unless you want every thing in back up front with you or on the glare shield. Departure stalls and accelerated stalls (clean) and approach (landing configuration) can be handled nicely if done promptly with the appropriate inputs at the break. No, I'd not recommend them for student pilots, pilots who only do things mechanically, and pilots who don't practice until the recovery becomes instinctive. But these characteristics are pretty much a fact of life for most high performance aircraft and particularly older ones. Rich S. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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"Morgans" wrote in message
... "Peter Dohm" wrote I don't fully understand the theory on those either, although they certainly seem more promising than the older method of degrading the inboard portions of a wing to achieve the desired progression. If anyone has experience and/or theoretical knowledge, I beg to be enlightened. A piece of triangle on the inboard leading edge do not hurt the airfoil at cruise, noticeably. Think about it. If you put it on the leading edge where the air is splitting going up or down, what difference would it make? Once the angle of attack increases too much, then it causes the air to start burbling, and lit you know to back off a bit. Sounds good to me! -- Jim in NC Jim, I think you may have read my question and statement too hurriedly. I agree that the traditional "stall strips" have negligible effect on the wing in cruise. However, in the slow flight regime, they only cause the inboard portions of the wing to stall at a higher airspeed. In some cases the degradation can be dramatic--as in the case of the Piper Tomahawk where the version with 4 stall strips stalls at approximately 10% higher airspeed than the version with 2 stall strips. (I am sorry that I can't locate the POH to quote precisely) The question, on which I begged enlightenment, was the preformance of the little "delta" shaped vortex generators which are dewsigned to be placed as a forward projection of the leading edge with the tip downward and their widest portion at the top. Unlike the moveable slats on the Helio and the fixed slats on the Swift, which work by enhancing the Coanda effect, the leading edge vortex generators are open at the sides and create a double vortex at high AOA and have negligible effect in cruise. Most of what I think that I know about them is from hangar flying, and the builders/pilots who have them seem to like them, but I still don't know whether the actual stall speed is increased or decreased--although the stall is supposed to occur at a slightly higher AOA. Clear as mud, eh! Peter |
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"Roger" wrote in message
... So, what's wrong with the sharper stall? You just learn to handle it. According to Ball's Book on Bonanzas the Early Debs don't have any washout (just a small stall strip) and they do have an abrupt stall with a strong tendency to drop a wing in the landing configuration. Rog ......... I have a couple of hunnert hours in Vee-tails and Debs. Believe me, they do not stall sharply compared with the Emeraude. I think if you read my later postings in this thread, I was *not* complaining about not being able to fly the airplane (sorry about the double negative. I will say that it is much harder to become proficient at detecting an incipient stall. There is virtually no warning burble. There are other effects of the abrupt or "clean" stall as well, especially in departure configuration. You soon learn to stay well away from that attitude, but you are so uncomfortably pitched up to achieve one, that it's easy to avoid. Rich S. |
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Peter Dohm wrote:
"Morgans" wrote in message ... "Peter Dohm" wrote I don't fully understand the theory on those either, although they certainly seem more promising than the older method of degrading the inboard portions of a wing to achieve the desired progression. If anyone has experience and/or theoretical knowledge, I beg to be enlightened. A piece of triangle on the inboard leading edge do not hurt the airfoil at cruise, noticeably. Think about it. If you put it on the leading edge where the air is splitting going up or down, what difference would it make? Once the angle of attack increases too much, then it causes the air to start burbling, and lit you know to back off a bit. Sounds good to me! -- Jim in NC Jim, I think you may have read my question and statement too hurriedly. I agree that the traditional "stall strips" have negligible effect on the wing in cruise. However, in the slow flight regime, they only cause the inboard portions of the wing to stall at a higher airspeed. In some cases the degradation can be dramatic--as in the case of the Piper Tomahawk where the version with 4 stall strips stalls at approximately 10% higher airspeed than the version with 2 stall strips. (I am sorry that I can't locate the POH to quote precisely) The question, on which I begged enlightenment, was the preformance of the little "delta" shaped vortex generators which are dewsigned to be placed as a forward projection of the leading edge with the tip downward and their widest portion at the top. Unlike the moveable slats on the Helio and the fixed slats on the Swift, which work by enhancing the Coanda effect, the leading edge vortex generators are open at the sides and create a double vortex at high AOA and have negligible effect in cruise. Most of what I think that I know about them is from hangar flying, and the builders/pilots who have them seem to like them, but I still don't know whether the actual stall speed is increased or decreased--although the stall is supposed to occur at a slightly higher AOA. Clear as mud, eh! Peter I wnet looking for some "how it works" articles... with varying degrees of sucess. These were the more interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_generator http://www.microaero.com/ http://www.zenithair.com/stolch801/d...vg-design.html Chris Heintz 701 VG page http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...cs/q0009.shtml Interesting description... http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/cor...004/16E_03.pdf Mitsubishi is using them on automobiles now! Interesting paper. http://www.avweb.com/news/reviews/182564-1.html The use of vortex generators is nothing new. First used in England, VGs have been used on transport jets for decades, and on bizjets since Bill Lear invented them. But historically they were used as an aerodynamic "band-aid" to deal with localized mach buffet problems at the high end of the airspeed envelope. MacDonnell Douglas engineers would routinely scoff at the VGs on Boeing jets and brag, "see, we don't need those things because we got our aerodynamics right in the first place." http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/proj...ex/vortex.html Vortex rings - like smoke rings? Dolphins make air vortex rings in the water and play games with them. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/.../Micro-VG.html NASA paper about micro VGs on the FLAPS (way cool) http://home1.gte.net/pjbemail/VortexGen.html VGs used to enhance top speed of ice skaters??? http://www.flxsys.com/Applications/A...x%20Generator/ ACTIVE (dynamic) VGs developed for the Air Force? http://www.physorg.com/news85159467.html Silly things are even being used under water... Richard -- (remove the X to email) Now just why the HELL do I have to press 1 for English? John Wayne |
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