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Oddly enough, it's called, and I quote, "Leading Edge Tape". There's a thread on this about a year back. You have to Google "Leading Edge Tape" to find it. I buy the 1-inch wide variety and put it on wings, horizontal and vertical. When my airplane was in primer, which is soft, rain eroded the leading edges. There are pics posted on this about a year back. Others had similar experiences and many suggested leading edge tape. I also use it to seal the gap between inboard and outboard wings on my Legacy. It has never separated, in about 100 hours of flying, never pitted, peeled, or discolored, and it did not pull up the primer when I pulled it off. I think it's too thin to disrupt the boundary layer, and so far forward that a laminar layer almost certainly re-forms behind it.
Being lazy, I buy it from Aircraft Spruce but I believe others may have found it cheaper from glider supply shops. They use it as gap sealer, evidently. One role of 36 yards had done two complete applications and has a bunch left over.
Charley Brown
Legacy #299 150 hr
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On Sep 17, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Greenbacks, UnLtd. wrote:
Is there a product out there suitable for protecting the leading edges of the 320/360?
Aside from a few issues such as degrading laminar flow, possible speed reduction, discoloration, difficulty of removal, etc.,
what seems to be the current thinking on this subject?
Angier Ames
N4ZQ
FAA inspection scheduled for 9/26
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