Stolspeed VG's

[Utah-Jay]

My plane weighs 1276# empty, I have never landed with less than 12 gallons, and I typically have about 30#’s of junk in the cargo area. I weigh 210 most days in flying clothes.

I land with Flaps 3 and in a 3 point attitude, I have never full stalled a landing.

My plane will not stall, the nose has never dropped, and a wing has never dipped when doing stalls. I lose the will so to speak at about 19* nose up and dropping 650 fpm doing stalls.

Sorry if my data is not in line with other BH’s, I can only tell you what my plane does.

My Companion is currently for say word of mouth, goes on Barnstormers this Sunday…. But a VERY good glider pilot is thinking of buying it and I took him up two weeks ago and he too gave up on trying to get it to stall. I add that as I am just an average pilot

[rodsmith]

I'm very surprised you are selling your Companion. Seems like you have been really enjoying it.

[Utah-Jay]

I'm very surprised you are selling your Companion. Seems like you have been really enjoying it.

I LOVE IT!!!! A non-health life surprise hit unfortunately

[rodsmith]

Sorry to hear that!

[Battson]

That's too bad Jay, sorry to hear this news.

[Rspencer]

Ok. Not full test results for me, but some in my 4A. Went up and flew it tonight after getting all the VG’s on the wings at 3.5% chord (aligned with middle of first rivet line) and all the VG’s on the horizontal stab lower side 4” from the elevator hinge. I did 60mm spacing from wing tip to inner edge of aileron, then 90mm spacing the rest of the wing to the root. 30mm spacing on the stab as directed.

Power off, flaps 3 plane just mushed in a steady decent at 43/44 MPH with no buffet or break/stall. Added a bit of power (1300rpm) and nose rises, slowly and steadily speed decrease. Buffet and stall with a break came at 35MPH. Straight over, no wing drop, good aileron control throughout. Was able to hold 37/36 mph and fly without a stall…..but once it goes below to 35, the buffet hits and the stall is quickly after it. Prior to this flap 3 stall was 42MPH. So 7 MPH reduced. WOW.!

I did not test any other configs tonight, was short on daylight when I got up at 5pm and wanted to do some landings. I did a couple flaps 3 landings and one full flap landing. Over the fence at 50 slowing to 45, push up a touch of power and enter the flare around 45 about a foot off the runway, with speed decreasing. Smooth touchdown at about 38 MPH. It really woke up the tail too. No weight in back and me at 280 up front and on the last one my 200lb dad up front with me, easily 3 point. I actually touched the tail JUST before the mains on 2 landings. Pretty dang impressive overall!

Thanks Virgil at Bearhawk for the chord suggestion of 3-5% based on their testing and testimonials on the earlier wing. Very happy with it. And I still got a 130MPH indicated cruise at 24”/2400 @ 4500msl. Same as before on my 31” ABW’s with baby bush wheel. So no loss in cruise speed

[huntaero]

Do you have the flat Hor stab or the curved later version?