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I have seen strakes with both sharp and round leading edges(my old C150).
would stall be a problem? a strake is effectively a very low aspect ratio
wing with high sweep, in front of the tail and it seems like it would need a
much larger OAO than the tail to stall. the high sweep creates vortices that
travel down over the tail from the stakes and increase the lift and I am
curious if they preserve it when the tail starts to become ineffective.
since fighter aircraft use strakes for high AOA maneuvers they could work
for us small tail guys. with all of this in mind, it would seem like all the
variables could be very important. It wold be nice to find some test data we
could all share with before/after experiments if anyone has it.

thanks, Scott

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