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Hello, I have a long term goal of making a small bush plane: 450lbs
useful load, 35mph clean stall, 600 ft clear 50ft. I know there are quite a few designs out there, PA-11 Cub, Bushcaddy, Zenith CH701 to name a few that I'm kind of familiar. But here, I'm looking into the possiblity of working it out on a c150. First of all, I want to say that this C150 will have a much lower gross when used for bush flying, I know it'll be 1400# with no mods but I like to see if I could push it down to 1300#. And now I want to tackle on one aspect this time, how to improve the wings to significantly reduce the stall speed. First a question, anyone knows how far away the C150 wings is from an ideal high lift design, i.e., if you would design it again (keep the area and weigh the same and also conventional shape etc) how much can you lower the stall speed? I'm guessing for a certain design the stall speed is proportional to the square root of the wingloading. The stock C150 is 10lb/ft^2 and stalls at 48mph, while, for example, it is 8.9 and 30mph for the Bushcaddy R120. So if I trust the number, the wings for the Bushcaddy must be way more more efficient than that of the C150. What's the deal here? Now the CH701 is interesting that it has a leading edge slats. I'm wondering how much improvement you can make if you put one set on the C150 wings? As far as I know, there is noboby working on that. (I'm aware of the Dakota slotted wing for the Cubs.) But it does not look like too difficult. Any slats expert here? Oh, let's not worry about the FAA part for now. ![]() Thanks, Jizhong |
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