X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:37:30 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [206.46.252.46] (HELO vms046pub.verizon.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 1030163 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:03:05 -0400 Received: from ieee.org ([71.110.145.77]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJ2004JJA1011AH@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 12:03:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Original-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:04:55 -0700 From: "Charles R. Patton" Subject: Leading Edge Paint Striping X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Reply-to: charles.r.patton@ieee.org X-Original-Message-id: <42C81AB7.4080401@ieee.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 We're in the process of designing a paint scheme for our plane. I know there were discussions about the very bad effects of paint stripe/steps on the leading edge of the wings -- the upshot being don't do it! But then this brought to mind the question, "What effect do stripes have on the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer?" More induced drag, or ...? Thanks, Charles Patton LNC2 N360JM