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how long before those turn to urine yellow color and become brittle? Maybe they are built better than that? Can anyone speak to this?

[jrthomas]

how long before those turn to urine yellow color and become brittle? Maybe they are built better than that? Can anyone speak to this?

I can. One of my friends put the StolSpeed vg's on his "Swick T" Taylorcraft 7 or 8 years ago. They're all still there and look just like the day they were put on. I did some research before installing mine. If I remember right, the wings are about 43 inches wide and 4% worked out to something like 1.72 inches. I just used the finishing tape as a line to follow which was 2 inches or so back from the leading edge. I remember reading that people that put the vg's farther back saw very little if any improvement. Brian's improvements pretty much match mine so I think we're onto something. What's even more impressive than the much lower stalling speed is the way it will hang in the air at an AOA that I never came close to before. "Standing on its tail" is the way Brian put it. I went out for a while this morning and as I was on final I heard myself say out loud "how slow can you go". I'm much more confident coming in slow and it even seems to touch down softer doing a full stall 3 point. Oh, one more thing. SlolSpeed calls it 120 vg's but we put 120 on Brian's and I think we still had 9 left. Nice of them to put in extras I thought. Another thing. I didn't loose any speed and I don't think Brian did either. I'm a believer!

[skyguy04]

Not sure. But they were only $97 shipped for 120 of them. And they just stick on with 3M sticky tape. I would imagine they would be easily replaceable. It took us about 45 minutes to install them.

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$97?! Thats a good buy for the results your showing. Ill probably do it later.