Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.gateway.net ([208.230.117.245]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-52269U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:36:15 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer (1Cust45.tnt1.coeur-dalene.id.da.uu.net [208.254.107.45]) by smtp1.gateway.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA09643 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:39:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001301beea16$157c4b80$2d6bfed0@oemcomputer> Reply-To: "dfs" From: "dfs" To: "Lancair List" Subject: Legacy 2000 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:40:12 -0700 X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> This airplane sounds very nice. But I repeat my earlier note: If it has, as someone here has reported, "landing gear just like the Glasair III" then Lancair has taken a very large step backward!!! The gear on the Gl*&%%# III doesn't have positive mechanical down-locks (like overcenter links) but relies instead on hydro pressure to effect the lock. The results are, at times, quite nasty. The fellow that had the hangar next to me in So. Cal. (Torrance) had his collapse while turning off the runway one morning on a hamburger run - quite an expensive Big Mac for the lack of good engineering. One can only hope that Lance's new plane has gear that only looks like the GIII's and doesn't work like it. Dan Schaefer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML homepage: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html