How to Make Your Bushplane Go Faster 

What a great addition to your airplane. It looks fantastic along with being more efficient.

Great work Bryan! Very cool upgrade.

There is a great book called "Speed with Economy". If you test improved aerodynamics by holding the engine RPM constant, what you will see is improved fuel burn, not much change in air speed. After all, at a given RPM, the propeller will move the same distance through the air (plus or minus a bit for the efficiency of the prop). Prop efficiency does not really change that much. What you need to do to compare aerodynamic improvements is test at wide open throttle. That way engine power (and fuel burn) will be held relatively constant and the change in airspeed will be apparent. Kent Paser covers this well in the book.

Really enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing the journey with your Kitfox.

Looks absolutely amazing.

Beautiful. Are the safety cables really required since you don’t use bungee suspension? Even if the shock went flat, it’s not going to totally collapse, right?

I was wondering when someone would come out with a fairing kit for the shock monsters. Would be nice if the safety ropes were enclosed in the lower section.

Trent sent me your way

Great video. I like your helmet - have you covered that on prior video. How do you like it.

Smart wearing a helmet.

Water drainage holes?

You need to add a ferrite bead to the camera audio lead to suppress the ignition coil generated, rpm following noise.

Any improvement in climb?

There are many, who claim gear fairings "don't make any difference," followed by "and I land off airport a lot and want to be able to inspect the gear." Bull! When I went to cub style gear on my RANS S-7S 12 years ago, from the very clean stock spring rod gear, I lost climb AND cruise. Flying it back from John Robert's place in Emmett (at the time) to the Pocatello area, it seemed like "bad" air, sinky, it took a while before i figured what was going on, I flew it two weeks bare, then fully faired it, shock struts and even the cabane is faired, it is well worth doing. Of course I am comparing totally unfaired A frames, not just the shock struts, so my gain was more.

Is there a plan in motion for remote access to the air fittings on the shocks?

How do you service the shock strut?

No really on topic but what helmet is that? I've been looking for a paramotor helmet that will take my A20's

Don't stop there, put a fairing on the lift struts that join them out to a point outside the propeller arc, put cuffs on the upper attach points ala Monocoupe and Howard, seal all gaps between fixed and moveable surfaces. I watched a stock Champ 7AC go from 85mph to easily keep up and outrun Cessna 150's using light aluminum fairings to clean up all the drag producing areas, landing gear struts being one of the worst.

He should consider a split 3d printed rib so you wouldn't need to take things apart.

Ok I was wrong with my prediction ☺️.

I predict an increase of 7 mph.