Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990125094404.0393fb98@olsusa.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:44:04 -0500
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
From: Marvin Kaye <marvkaye@olsusa.com>
Subject: LC20 Pitch Sensitivity
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Posted for Greg Nelson <gregsays@swbell.net>:

Several years ago a builder in California (I don't remember his name)
designed and tested a pitch enhancement modification to his small-tailed
360 airplane which he called a "strake".  The design of this strake was
simply to move (or "fair") the INNERMOST leading edge of the horizontal
stab forward some distance so as to increase the total surface area of
the stab and also to capture more air farther forward than does the original
design thus to increase the effectiveness of the the small tail.  He claimed
considerable improvements in slow speeds and approaches but does he still? 
At the time, this seemed like the definitive solution for all small-tailed
Lancairs; a quick and inexpensive improvement in pitch stability.  Who was
that builder?  What has become of this modification?  Do any of you have
additional, helpful information on the strake?