Rick,

Amazing!!  Those cylinder rods are so stiff and brittle, you would think the
glass hardpoints would fail first???  The trigonometric forces must be
phenominal or the bending moments caused by excessive compression causes
stress fractures within the threaded areas.  Any comments on this?
How do you magnaflux a fiberglass airframe???

I assumed you landed on three legs.

Bob Smiley
N94 RJ


> During the preflight inspection, I discovered that the pilot-side inner
gear door was dangling freely.  The rod end bearing from the inner gear door
hydraulic cylinder was sheared off completely.