{"id":256,"date":"2011-06-19T20:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2021-06-09T03:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:30:31","slug":"tuft-testing-on-the-lower-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/tuft-testing-on-the-lower-cowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuft testing on the lower cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides giving\u00a0passenger Marc the mandatory RV-Grin (which i&#8217;m lead to believe\u00a0will have a lasting effect ;-) we tried to trace the source of the aerodynamic vibrations in the cabin floor. It&#8217;s hard to compare it to other airplanes and is definitely not bad, but in the longterm, less vibrations is always better for the airframe.<\/p>\n<p>For that purpose, we taped some small tufts to the cowling and mounted a gopro digital video camera to the right gear wheelpant.<br \/>\nOne thing that is evident from the videos is that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-inflatables.co.za\/\"> jumping castle<\/a> the &#8220;Louvers&#8221; cooling aides in the bottom cowl work perfectly while the vibration most likely is generated by the current shape of the cowl outlet around the exhaust\/nosegear mount. Already thinking about possible mods.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Short video with the tufts zoomed in.<\/p>\n<address><code>[flashvideo file=wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tufts2.flv \/]<br \/>\n(Press the full screen button on the bottom right of the video for high quality)<\/code><\/address>\n<p>Landing on RWY26 at LSZF (Birrfeld)<\/p>\n<address><code>[flashvideo file=wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/landing.flv \/]<br \/>\n(Press the full screen button on the bottom right of the video for high quality)<\/code><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides giving\u00a0passenger Marc the mandatory RV-Grin (which i&#8217;m lead to believe\u00a0will have a lasting effect ;-) we tried to trace the source of the aerodynamic vibrations in the cabin floor. It&#8217;s hard to compare it to other airplanes and is definitely not bad, but in the longterm, less vibrations is always better for the airframe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54,60],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-testing","category-flying","tag-tuft-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flyvans.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}