X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.102] (HELO ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 980862 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:50:38 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.253] (cpe-066-057-036-199.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.36.199]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1B6np63007351 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:49:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43ED890E.1040505@nc.rr.com> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:49:50 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-2.1.fc4.nr (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Performance Increase References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Perry Mick wrote: > Yes, I've been flying 5.00X5 tires without wheelpants since last > summer. The change today was from no wheelpants to wheelpants. It was > a greater improvement than I expected. I should look for some more > drag reduction items! > Any drag reduction is good, but I would say that in this case you got two for the price of one. That gear leg provides a pretty good torque arm for the wheel drag to twist the nose of the plane down. You were probably having to throw in some extra nose-up trim at cruise to compensate. Cleaning up the wheel saves the wheel drag and the extra trim drag. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."