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Old 12-17-2010, 02:04 PM
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How much faster is a plane with these than the stock tie-downs?
We will have to wait for some pireps on that. We can frame it between no change and the speed if they are removed. But just like the RV itself they look faster even when sitting still.
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Old 12-17-2010, 02:28 PM
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How much faster is a plane with these than the stock tie-downs?
Same exact speed.... you do unscrew them and stash them away in your baggage compartment when you're flying, and only screw them in once parked and tying down the aircraft don't you?
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Old 12-17-2010, 08:18 PM
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Same exact speed.... you do unscrew them and stash them away in your baggage compartment when you're flying, and only screw them in once parked and tying down the aircraft don't you?
Funny. That would require too much bending, squatting and other difficult moves. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in the back of the instrument panel on a 6A slider?

I am curious about what looks like a hole for a bolt perpendicular to the rope hole. Is that there for a reason? (Note that sometimes I do not care if I appear "slow")
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Old 12-17-2010, 08:38 PM
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Looks great! What's next Mike? How about retractable ones? Bunch of racers among us great market .
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Old 12-17-2010, 09:23 PM
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I'd bet the cross hole is so you can stick a screwdriver in there to help you turn it when you leave it in the airplane so long that it gets corroded in or something like that.
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Old 12-17-2010, 10:30 PM
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installed on my RV-7. They are sweet.

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Old 12-18-2010, 06:48 AM
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...at speed and their size will definitely create more drag than eyebolts.

I take mine out too.

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Old 12-18-2010, 07:45 AM
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...at speed and their size will definitely create more drag than eyebolts.

I take mine out too.

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Maybe they will whistle and scare deer....I'm installing deer whistles on my Honda Pilot as soon as it is returned from the repair shop. (:
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Old 12-18-2010, 09:33 AM
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Just sent the link to mama...wonder if I've been a good boy this year!

Been wanting some stainless rings (the ones at West Marine are metric, and don't quite fit...AMHIK! )

Rings out, speed tape on! These look like they'd fit in the little pouch on that RV bag...heck, they'd drop right in a pocket!

Gotta test the whistle though...that could be fun too. New meaning to "Came whistling into the break!" (that's the cousin of "Came smokin' into the break"...but that's another thread!)

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Old 12-18-2010, 09:34 AM
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Bob, you can whistle and smoke during the overhead approach.
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