Our paint job is right at a year old and as you would expect has several leading edge (wings and horizontal stabilizer) “dings” that have chipped the paint.  Rather than using touch up paint (our first thought) to be applied with a brush, we decided to go the “right way” albeit the expensive way, and put in into the same paint shop that did the job in the first place.  As would be expected it now looks like the day it did when it was first painted.

 

What we would like to do is to take some precautionary measures this time around.  Is it a good idea to put some sort of leading edge protective tape on the wings and horizontal stabilizer?  Is it unsightly? Is there any detrimental effect on speed? Can someone please point me in a direction of where we might source such a product?

 

Any and all suggestions/recommendations will be most welcome.  

 

Berni Breen + Bill Hourin

Lancair IV

NX4D

343 hours