That's why I prefer to land on grass strips - tires. If the plane is too big, then don't fly it.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 9:49 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Back in the 70s when I worked as a summer intern at NASA Langley in the > flight research dept I brought up this idea, thought it would save on > tires. I had been flying for awhile at that point, and always cringed > at touchdown when I heard the tires squeal. Then being in the flight > research group I would see the planes land and hear the same thing, they > had the forst F-15s there too that had these little tiny tires it looked > like, they got beat up pretty good. I figured if they could get up to > some speed first it would save rubber and stress. For some reason no > one thought it was a good idea, I'm sure it had been thought of before, > it was kinda simply intuitive, but I guess for some reasons unclear it > has never happened. > > --FT > > > On 9/1/18 12:01 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > > As I recall from Test Pilot School days, it's been tried but it > increased the required runway length. Tires were cheaper than runways. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Craig via Mercedes > > ... > >> Several years ago I submitted to NASA Tech Briefs Idea Contest my idea > of > >> putting curved sheet metal "buckets", not unlike those of water > turbines, on > >> the wheels of aircraft to spin up the wheels and tires when the landing > gear > >> was deployed so there would not be sudden angular acceleration of the > >> wheels at touchdown. > >> > >> They were not interested. > >> > >> But I still don't see why that would not be a good idea. Grant? > >> > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
