Bearhawk
Sir, I put the VGs on my Bearhawk B model wings minus the 18” extended wingtips. Following your guidance on spacing installation was a breeze. Weather cooperates for a limited window today and called my fellow test pilot (Dad) to give her a spin. We tested at 2250lbs with a CG slightly forward of center.
Woah.
I started with two high speed taxi runs to make sure there were no major problems and got airborne briefly - but then the wings just held on! It floated nose up high well after it “should” have landed.
Power off stalls were unrecognizable. Instead of a clear stall at 56 mph (flaps up) as per previous tests at this weight/cg it slowed to 50 and just stayed there, controllably mushing its way to Earth at 1000 fpm. Flaps 2 of 4 notches went from 53 to 48 with the same controllability increase. Wild!
Full flaps now do nothing to the stall speed. It was minor and now they are just drag.
Power on, flaps up, the plane now sustains a 33 degree nose up attitude at full power and 46 mph. Climbing at 300fpm. In all cases the control stick is fully aft at the stop and the ailerons are effective. Woah.
If you’re interested I’ll send more info after the horizontal stab is equipped with VGs. I expected improvement but not to this degree.
Many thanks,
Ken in Alaska