Mark, Is ther any doco and/or photos of Dan's gear legs.
Barry Kruyssen [email protected] AUF Registered 19-3873 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]> To: "KR builders and pilots" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: KR>Dihedral Question > Bob Glidden wrote: > > > I have a set of the gear brackets you made up and they are great.I forget > > how much exactly,but they do weigh less then the Diehl brackets...And they > > look great on the taller spar... > > I really can't take credit for that one. That was Dr. Dean's "product". > We probably got the idea from Troy Petteway's plane, which he had already > "crash tested". Broke the aluminum leg, but left the 4130 mount in fine > shape. Dean did an amazing amount of research on the subject, including a > stress analysis of the 3M Scotchply vs aluminum. I believe he concluded > that the 3M stuff had some superior damping qualities over aluminum, which > may be why Dan chose it as the gear leg material for his gear setups. > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
