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For those of you working hard in the garage or the shop, keep building!

I flew my Sonex at sunset yesterday in the golden evening light. The Chicagoland weather was its usual fickle self, and clouds were rolling in from the south. Made for some beautiful layers and golden beams of sunlight.

It’s so worth it when you can go do this in an aircraft you built!

Hi Robbie, nice photos. I see you have installed vortex generators. I did a search here to see if there was any more information on them but couldn't find much. Do you see any benefit?

Peter

Nice photos. Thanks for the encouragement. I too am interested in your experience with the VG's.
Thanks...Vern

Hi Peter and Vern

I have absolutely no empirical data to offer, only my completely biased opinion.

These VG’s are from Aircraft Spruce and in my humble opinion helped greatly with slow speed response, especially landing, reduced the stall to a mush, and did not subtract from my high speed performance.

It may be safer for me to discuss religion, politics, and sex all at once than to offer this opinion. So, there’s that.

One fun thing about experimental aircraft. We can experiment.

Sonex1517 wrote:I have absolutely no empirical data to offer, only my completely biased opinion.

It may be safer for me to discuss religion, politics, and sex all at once than to offer this opinion. So, there’s that.

I wish the forum had emoticons. That made my morning. LOL LOL LOL LOL

Sonex1517 wrote:These VG’s are from Aircraft Spruce and in my humble opinion helped greatly with slow speed response, especially landing, reduced the stall to a mush, and did not subtract from my high speed performance.

Not subtracting from high speed performance is a good start. It seems to me that the stall, at least the power off stall, is already just a mush.

Peter