To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:38:03 -0400
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] bad landing update
Message-ID: <20040606.173847.-297683.8.jschuber@juno.com>
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From: Terry L Schubert <jschuber@juno.com>

  Be sure your longerons are level or slightly nose high when considering
nose strut cutting.  If the nose is lower than level,  considerable
increase in ground roll will be observed due to negative angle of
incidence on the canard.  Be sure you check this at gross weight and be
sure the main strut is "set or that you have rolled the plane forward 10
feet before measuring longeron levelness.


Terry Schubert
Central States Association
Newsletter Editor


On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 16:55:45 -0400 "Steve Brooks" <steve@tsisp.com>
writes:
> I went back out to the airport with my camera, and a Brock's catalog, 
> to see
> what I had to order.  I am very happy to report that the nose 
> castor
> assemble is not damaged as I thought.  I spot that is scuffed up, I 
> thought
> had been ground off, but in looking at the catalog, I saw that it 
> was flat
> to start with.
> 
> Also my front strut also appears to be undamaged.  The only thing 
> that it
> did was to strip off the BID layer below the MKNG3&4.   A stainless 
> steel
> skid plate (NG2A) saved everything else from damage, but it 
> definitely
> bought it in the process.  The entire center of it is ground away, 
> but the
> sides are in tact, so it didn't grind away enough of it to damage 
> anything
> else.
> 
> Since I have to sand it down to redo the BID wrap on the forward 
> face, I'm
> also going to shorten my nose strut at the same time.  I left it 
> long
> originally per advice in the archives, but I find that it is a 
> little too
> long, and would be better if it were a half inch shorter.  I really 
> hated to
> tear it apart to do that, but now is a different story.
> 
> I still have the NG2 that came with my nose wheel assemble, but I 
> think I'll
> buy another NG2A (Stainless).  They appear to be pretty tough, and 
> saved me
> from allot more damage.
> 
> I was too ticked off at myself to do a good analysis of the damage
> initially, but when I went back out I was surprised when I started 
> looking
> at it that there really wasn't much damage.  The toughest will be 
> the hockey
> puck.  It's half gone (maybe 2/3), and will have to be removed and a 
> new one
> glassed in then microed and finished.  Great...I thought that I was 
> done
> sanding.
> 
> Steve Brooks
> Cozy MKIV N75CZ
> Feeling lucky after all
> 
> 
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