Posted for dudewanarace@yahoo.com:
So, I get a fair
amount of emails through my 360 website from people
researching the 320/360 airplane. Almost always, the questions come up about
flutter, how to 'fix' it, big tail vs small tail, etc.. One of the biggest
issues I have to deal with is what is found on this
page:
http://www.lancair.net/flutter.html
First let me offer my opinion on the content of that page. I know a bit
about the late Mr Hollmann and it isn't confidence inspiring. Even if his
vibration analysis was done properly, his solution really
doesn't make any
sense to me. Combine that with the thousands of hours of operation without
major flutter problems that I know of, it
seems all this page does is cloud
the water. Also, a back and forth banter where neither side produces a
definitive answer isn't
productive, much like politics! lol
If you google "Lancair 360" it is one of the top results, probably within
the top 5. I
guess my question is this: Is this page really doing any of us
any good?
As a community can we make a decision on this and either
chnage/update it,
remove it, or I suppose I'm crazy and do nothing at all.
I'm all for making the tail stronger, don't get me wrong.
When I finally
get the motivation to cut out my horizontal to change the incidence, I plan
on wrapping the tail just like the Super
Legacy modification, given the above
average speeds I fly. Although I'm open to opinions on other ways to do
this.
Tom
McNerney
http://www.N54SG.com
[First time it's come up in a number
of years, however, if it's outlived its supposed usefulness I'll be happy to remove it. <Marv> ]