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Old 12-04-2006 | 01:06 PM
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BillS
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Default RE: Effect of simple flaps

Tall Paul,

Don’t ever want anyone to break anything. The question was not asked without a purpose.

The quest is to understand in advance of testing enough about the flight characteristics to help someone get his overweight, beautiful and reasonably high dollar gal to the twentieth flight with as little damage as possible. The airplane design characteristics are frankly outside the wing loading design parameters with which I am comfortable. If it lives to flight 20 a turn on the buddy box will be required.

The initial landing attempt would likely be several passes at the radar gun probably scarring the hell out of the radar operator. Current thinking is that the minimum landing speed will be in the mid 30’s.

Bill