Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for light sport?

Of course the flaps don't help since the stall speed is specified as "clean"
ie no flaps....
John

On Friday 17 September 2010 10:38:18 pm chris@digitalrealitycorp.com wrote:
> I want to chime in here.....supercharging or turbo normalizing can give you
> better performance in higher thin air by maintaining sea level power.
>
> Micro vortex generators can lower stall speed. Spotted power flaps further
> lower stall speed.
>
> Leading edge droops improve stability and...
>
>
> All these can make a plane have a much bigger envelope.
>
> Of course....nthe entire purpose of the LSA category is really, low, slow
> and short distance.
>
> Chris Norman, CEO
> www.digitalrealitycorp.com

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