Brief Description: Leading edge to windshield fairing
This fairing needs to be sculpted to fit the contours of the windshield. It presented some initial challenges but after test-fitting several shapes made of cardboard and scrap 0.020", I wound up with the final 0.016" product in one attempt. The following text is left here for when the ducts are added.
I will be installing a NACA duct under the wing fairings (just above the door) to provide fresh air to the cabin via SCAT tubing connected to the interior ball vents. This is true experimentation, because I am unsure whether there will be sufficient airflow past the vent for it to work. The confluence of the windshield and leading edge of the wing can experience high pressure areas at speed. A NACA ducts draws air into it via a pressure differential created by allowing fast-moving air to expand into the specifically sized NACA opening, In flight, I believe high pressure zones at the leading edge/windshield don't actually move very quickly, but just 'sit' there.
If true, the vents might still work, but just because they provide a convenient low pressure zone for the high-pressure air to flow into, not because they are "drawing" fast flowing air into them as they were designed to do.
If it doesn't work, I'll just have to use ugly scoops on the leading edge.
