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Wing Root Fairing
First impressions of adding Knot2U wing root fairings on my Cherokee 140:
Nothing clearly different in the handling/performance of the plane. Of course, I hadn't flown the airplane since Nov 05 (surgery) so insert jokes about not remembering much here.. -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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First impressions of adding Knot2U wing root fairings on my Cherokee 140: Wallet noticeably lighter.... |
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In article . net,
Mike Spera wrote: First impressions of adding Knot2U wing root fairings on my Cherokee 140: Wallet noticeably lighter.... .4 AMU is hardly noticeable in the aviation world :-) -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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"Bob Noel" wrote: First impressions of adding Knot2U wing root fairings on my Cherokee 140: Nothing clearly different in the handling/performance of the plane. What are you hoping for? -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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"Dan Luke" wrote: "Bob Noel" wrote: First impressions of adding Knot2U wing root fairings on my Cherokee 140: Nothing clearly different in the handling/performance of the plane. What are you hoping for? "You will notice: ******** = 1-2 mph increased cruise. ******** = Reduced stall speeds ******** = Improved low speed handling ******** = Improved Stabilator Authority in the flare" To be fair, I wasn't "hoping" for much. The wing root fairings are just a start at some airframe cleanup. I probably won't do the rest of the available mods until after painting the airplane. The wing root fairings are easily removed for painting, unlike the other mods. -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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I had the following installed:
hoerner wingtips (and the installer obviously didn't know what he was doing, but at the time, neither did I), flap gap seals (good install job) aileron gap seals (another good install job) the difference? on the checkride, even the DE couldn't get the cherokee to stall (power-on stall). After 3 tries by me, he took over. I think we were at 30 deg. nose up when he decided it wasn't worth anymore time or effort. |
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Wing Root Fairing
Bob Noel wrote:
To be fair, I wasn't "hoping" for much. The wing root fairings are just a start at some airframe cleanup. I probably won't do the rest of the available mods until after painting the airplane. The wing root fairings are easily removed for painting, unlike the other mods. Bob: From a shop stand point, you want to accomplish all the mod work prior to doing the pain work. We had a client that always, and I mean always! had us do the paint work before everything else on his aircraft. It took three times as much labor to do anything as you had to carefully mask off and pad any area that you had to lean over or sit on to get at the work area. Save yourself the time, aggrivation and nerves and get all the work done first and then paint. It will also save you some bucks in the end... Craig C. |
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Bob Noel wrote:
I'm a bit confused. Other than the wing root fairing, the speed mods (flap hinge fairings, aileron and flaps and stab gap seals) seem to be easily worked without leaning over or sitting on parts of the airplane. Am I missing something? Also, I thought it would be easier to strip and paint before the mods and one more thing, I had thought about having the paint shop install the mods... don't know if any do that though. If your paint shop is going to do the mods that's one thing....What I was trying to get across is that you want to accomplish all the tasks that require disassembing and reassembling of the aircraft prior to the paint job. When the paint guys take it apart for stripping and painting, you want it to go back together and never have to come apart again....expect for maintenance. Our client was the type that it had to be repainted first, then we tore it down to hang new canopy glass, run new electrics, replace the complete interior, change all the instruments and their wiring and plumbing and on and on, all which required climbing all over the aircraft right after the new paint job. In my book, the last thing I want to do prior to delivering a restoration is the paint so that there is less chance to damage the most visable part of the restoration. Craig C. |
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