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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Dec 7, 2009
Description: This SeaRey was all dressed up with wheel pants and no place to go. Paige went to ferry it to its new owner. Unfortunately he found the gear was out of adjustment, there was trash in the carbs, and there was no paperwork. The only place it went was back into the hangar.

Date Taken: Dec 7, 2009
Place Taken: Little River, FL
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 34, Florida Flying
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Don Hull - Dec 07,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Too bad, it is a pretty airplane. Is that an 'A' hull?     
  
Dave Lima - Dec 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    I'd be thinking.....no     
  
Eric Batterman - Dec 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    'C' hull      Attachments:  

Spec sheet
Spec sheet

    
  
Kenneth Leonard - Dec 08,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    How do you get in it without stepping on those pretty wheel pants?     
  
Larry Woods - Dec 09,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Hi Dan:<br /><br />Adding wheel pants is typically one of the best 'speed mods' one can perform on an aircraft, but an amphibian is a high drag package in and of itself. Does this addition improve the cruise speed of the SeaRey? If it does, what was the cruise speed increase? <br /><br />Best,<br />Larry     
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 09,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Didn't fly it so I don't know, Larry. The ex-owner was an ex-Boeing guy (sales) who said an airplane just don't look right without 'em. He never did fly the SeaRey, but his friends who did so without the benefit of any training banged it around pretty good. Paige did say the pants would come off at the first boat ramp.     
  
Kevin D'Angelo - Dec 09,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    I could imagine the seaweed that would get caught in the pants would add a whole lot of weight to the bird     
  
Jim Moline - Dec 10,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    My idea was to fix spats to the wing strut so the improved? airfoil over the wheels would decrease drag. I had two spats that would fit, tempory fixed to strut and thought ' looks fugly when on the ground when everyone looks at it' So never proceeded.<br />Perhaps I should have.     
  
Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Dec 12,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    According to a whole lot of reading I did when I was looking at buying an aircraft the wheels were actually less of a drag than the legs. Apparently round legs are a real drag and I seriously thought of putting aerodynamic covers on. However, IIRC, there was someone with covers on around that time and they had suffered from some corrosion. Between that and knowing how long any modification takes I decided to stay with the regular legs. It is not as though the Searey is a sleek speedster anyway.     
  
Jim Moline - Dec 13,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Well I have done that part; put 'almost airfoil' covers on the legs. Round at the front and tapered at the rear.<br />Used semi flexible plastic sheet, bent around the legs from the front and joined at the rear by drilling holes and fixing with cable ties. It looks like it might do some good but no proof. The placebic effect satisfies me. Easy to remove and refix each annual.<br />Will post a pic, but not til first week in Jan when next at the hanger.     
  
Chris Leng - Dec 13,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    This airplane above has the fairings on the struts. If you zoom in, you can see them. They look pretty good. I'm going to fabricate some this winter. Although the SeaRey is slow and won't be able to be improved much, any improvement in drag helps with the fuel burn and most importantly to me, glide ratio.     


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