Nat the Fin Man...

[Keith Black]

Hey Nat, I flew my Aries with retracts today in extremely turbulent air. As my plane was bouncing around like crazy I started thinking about you and your fins and began to wonder if my other Aries with fixed gear would handle the turbulence any better.  In all the discussion about fixed gear vs. retracts I've never heard this aspect brought up. My fixed gear is the Bolly Wide which is pretty big and has an airfoil shape. 

What are your thoughts about the stabilizing effect, if any, of airfoil shaped gear?

Keith
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nat Penton 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:47 PM
  Subject: Alliance Trim


  Since I build somewhat "different" airplanes it occurred to me that some folks may not know what I mean by a dorsal. It would attach to the fuse and  leading edge of the fin and taper to zero in 20 inches or so. It can be held in place with tape for test flights.
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