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![]() I've recently bought a little rag and tube homebuilt. It's a Stits SA6b "Flut-R-Bug". It's a tailwheel version and had some cosmetic mods so that it is a fairly attractive little bird (relative to the butt ugly original configuration). This is a midwing, strut braced design. There is some buffeting on the horizontal tail when the plane is banked 30 degrees or more. I've been told that it is turbulence from the wing/fuselage junction. The published fix is to make leading edge fillets (strakes). I've seen similar tail buffeting in other similar size and configuration airplanes. In the Schweizer 1-26 glider for instance, this buffeting is greatly reduced by sealing the gap between horizontal and elevator. I will be sealing the control gaps as a matter of course and will be (attempting) to make some leading edge fillets. The fillets don't have to be large. Something like 12 inches long at the root and extending 9 or 10 inches out on the wing. The current plan is to hotwire some foam forms using airfoil templates and fiberglass them. I have two questions: How much of the buffeting is due to the horizontal/elevator gap? Do the fillets need to match the airfoil or would a generally streamlined shape do just as well, or is there a third option for determining how the fillets should be shaped? (simplifies construction if I can just bend them out of aluminum). Thanks for the advice, Wallace Glasflugel H301 N301BW Stits SA6b N5423M |
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