My nose strut faring broke open in flight yesterday and spread out like a fan. Heard it pop. Slowed me down considerably. Made the plane want to turn and gave me cross control symptoms. Now, I plan to simply cut it off and do without the faring. I deduce that this is permissible by the number of Coupes that do without, already. Am I correct?
Does anybody have a feel for how much speed this will cost me? Dave Winters
