Date: Friday, April 11 2008 08:46 pm
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com> 
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Reply-To: europa-list@matronics.com
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Fuselage/wing fairing/fillet
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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
> 
>