For those who don't know who Klaus Savier is, he races a Varieze and is a
fanatic when it comes to drag. For the longest time Klaus was the man to
beat.
I remember going to one of his presentations and looking at his aircraft. I
don't recall if it was the hinge on the canard, or the stakes on the rear
wing but I was surprised that there was no fairing. He had rounded the
front LE of the bracket and that was all.
Knowing Klaus, if he thought he could get 1/10 of a knot gain he would put
a fairing in it.
>From this I concluded with the exception of the outrigger that perhaps
there is little value in the fairing the flap hinges on the Europa.
Just my observation as a lost soul wanting around the Oshkosh airshow.
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