>><Might add 5 knots to the cruise> seems mighty optimistic - takes quite a
few horse power to do that<<
True, OTOH the drag of the airframe is very low, therefore the proportion of the
total represented by periferals like the outriggers, tailwheel, holes in the
fuselage and cooling drag is going to be much more significant than it would on
a Cessna, Piper or other machine with large built in headwind.
I am (so far) resisting the temptation to bolt on the outrigger cuffs until we
have some firm performance baseline figures. We are back in the shop for some
tiying up of minor squarks, like bending the sticks back so Pete can reach them,
they almost touch the panel at full down. Plan is to fly middle of next week,
weather God permitting.
Graham
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