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Re: Europa-List: Fuselage/wing fairing/fillet

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Fuselage/wing fairing/fillet
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:07:39
Fred
looks good to me, have a look at the fillet I did 10 years ago, not 
perfect and I think yours will be better.
Ted Gladstone claims 4 kts I think.
Just remember the wing root flexes up and down a couple or three mm. so 
the fairing must be flexible. Not a problem
Graham

Fred Klein wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> While trial fitting the wings and setting the angle of incidence, I took 
> some time to mock up an enhancement of the fairing in hopes of reducing 
> interference drag. The gist is to start w/ the radius of the standard 
> fairing just forward of the spar and extend the tangent point aft along 
> the fuselage waterline until abeam of the flap trailing edge.
> 
> thanks, Fred
> 
> 


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