blaplante
Well Known Member
Page 58 of the Sept 2018 Sport Aviation caught my eye... the article on Bill Glattli's RV 3 noted that he built a different wing/fuselage fairing, based on his experience with doing the same on his RV-6 and gaining 7 mph.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxvoDbZpoY8 also got me looking at the 6 and noticing that the fuselage starts to taper before the trailing edge of the flap. Seems like there is something to gain here and Glattli says "... I think is worth the relatively small amount of work involved".
Great!
But... I just can't visualize how to taper this back into the fuselage correctly. The video mentions needing to create an 'after body' to do this. None of the photos of Glatti's 3B show the area in detail.
What would be great... does anyone have a photo of the trailing edge wing/fuselage area on RV-6A N51WG? Or you've seen it and can describe?
Thank you
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxvoDbZpoY8 also got me looking at the 6 and noticing that the fuselage starts to taper before the trailing edge of the flap. Seems like there is something to gain here and Glattli says "... I think is worth the relatively small amount of work involved".
Great!
But... I just can't visualize how to taper this back into the fuselage correctly. The video mentions needing to create an 'after body' to do this. None of the photos of Glatti's 3B show the area in detail.
What would be great... does anyone have a photo of the trailing edge wing/fuselage area on RV-6A N51WG? Or you've seen it and can describe?
Thank you
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