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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.
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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)."
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