Kelly,
I would be pretty difficult to remove the NANCA since it is part of the fuselage, but it actually opens up depth and width as it goes back. My new scoop basically bolts on the front end of the existing scoop, and is quit different than the first one.
Attached are some photos that I took today of the new scoop (green – not finished) sitting on the removable landing gear cover that forms part of the NACA scoop. The new scoop mounts to the landing brake cover in the position shown and buts up to the existing entrance scoop. You can see that the scoop excludes the bottom 2” of boundary layer air, and also the submerged portion of the NACA scoop. This should only allow in the higher speed, clean air. How much drag it creates remains to be seen.
If it works, I’ll fill, and finish it. I plan to try it out tomorrow.
Steve Brooks
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Steve,
I may have missed something in the fury of posts but does your current version
of scoop still have the funnel like taper from the opening to the NACA inlet?
If so this will be a major bottleneck and restrict airflow. To make your new scoop
work efficiently you may have to open up (remove) the NACA inlet. IMHO
Kelly Troyer
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