Hubcaps - why?

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Re: Hubcaps - why?

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The Berringer wheels didn't come with hubcaps. I'm screwed on the airflow I guess.
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Re: Hubcaps - why?

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ememic99 wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:11 am BA33E127-2F01-4E14-B514-FDC0209168F1.jpeg

Who would say that so much drag world be generated without hubcaps….
From an Aviation Consumer article about the Cessna 414 retractable twin:

There’s also the Speed Cover wheel mod from Premiere Aviation. In the November 2016 Aviation Consumer, we covered the Speed Covers in the speed mod roundup article after verifying the company’s claims of a 5- to 10-percent reduction in fuel burn and a single-engine climb rate increase of 25 percent.

For those of you who have subscriber access to Aviation Consumer, here's the original 2016 article describing the test with and without the wheel cover "hub caps": https://www.aviationconsumer.com/aircra ... for-knots/
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Re: Hubcaps - why?

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Colin wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 2:16 am The Berringer wheels didn't come with hubcaps. I'm screwed on the airflow I guess.
But they look so good (and probably work so much better than stock brakes).

Presumably flight in low AOA regimes would produce less drag from the wheel well opening. Fly fast!
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Re: Hubcaps - why?

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Colin wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 2:16 am The Berringer wheels didn't come with hubcaps. I'm screwed on the airflow I guess.
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