Yesterday, I flew the 750 up to KCSV for their annual Open House and someone had a beautiful Howard airplane on display.  (I don't know the model but I understand Howard was a manufacturer in the '30's and '40's.)

I was struck by the very neat and clean fairing that encompassed both struts at the strut/wing junctions:

Obviously these fairings are aluminum and not composite. I don't know how aerodynamically efficient these are, but they sure do appear to clean-up those fittings!

FWIW, the plane also had some very simple lift strut fairings:

Just thought I'd throw this out in hopes it gets someone's creative juices flowing. It's a potential project I might consider but I'm still in the preliminary stages of making  composite fairings for the 750's struts/fuselage junction!

Confession: I was so interested in the fairings that I forgot to take a picture of the entire airplane ... but believe me, it was a beaut!

John

N750A

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