.......and I can add the Diehl gear will bend to point where the wheel rubs
on the wing having first ripped off the pitot tube without breaking or
deforming either the legs or the brackets.
John Martindale
29 Jane Circuit
TOORMINA NSW 2452
AUSTRALIA
phone: 61 2 66584767 (H)
61 2 66869094 (W)
mobile: 0417 584767
email: [email protected]
web: www.members.optusnet.com.au/johnjanet/Martindale.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]>
To: "KRnet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: KR> Undercarriage loadings
> Mark Jones wrote:
>
>> I am sure Langford will chime in on this one since he has had some good
>> ones. :-)
>
> My first landing was a whopping 5.5g's, but I'm happy to report that it
> was
> highest one so far. I was quite surprised that no damage resulted,
> especially since I violated the Diehl instructions to "locate the gear
> brackets as close to the fuselage as possible". I thought to myself "well
> I'll never land hard, so surely he's not talking to me!". I did manage a
> 2g
> "drop in" the other day at Moontown, but quite often the g-meter never
> moves.
>
> Mark Langford, Harvest, AL
> see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
>
>
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