how long before those turn to urine yellow color and become brittle? Maybe they are built better than that? Can anyone speak to this?
how long before those turn to urine yellow color and become brittle? Maybe they are built better than that? Can anyone speak to this?
Eddie Forward
Flying
SS7, 912iS, Garmin G3X
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!
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.
$97?! Thats a good buy for the results your showing. Ill probably do it later.
Eddie Forward
Flying
SS7, 912iS, Garmin G3X