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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:39:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: bad landing update
From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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On 6/6/04 6:18 PM, "Terry L Schubert" <jschuber@juno.com> wrote:

> I hadn't noticed you had the electric nose lift.
> 
> Be VERY sure the nose wheel fork pivot shaft is tilted aft at the top.
> If it is tilted forward at the top (not enough strut extension) the fork
> will be prone to flutter and I'm sure you've heard of nose wheels coming
> off and damaging the prop.
> 
> You can easily see if the extension is taking the nose "over center" by
> laying your hand on top of the canard while somebody extends the gear all
> the way.  You should feel the canard go all the way up and then come down
> slightly showing the mechanism is actually over center.  If the canard
> doesn't go down at all, then the mechanism is NOT over center and the
> electric lift is doing all the work.  That can be overloaded in a hard
> nose wheel touch down.
> 
> Terry Schubert
> Central States Association
> Newsletter Editor
> 
> 


I didn't know that Jack's lift has "over center" feature?
Bulent