REFLECTOR:Gear Speed

[Scott Baker]

With the main gear doors removed, and the front gear doors gone :-(  proceed
at normal power settings.
The Vne for the fixed gear Velocity is 200 knots - and although the gear
design is somewhat different between the RG and FG ... there is not a great
deal of difference in strength.  Be sure to tighten the shimmy dampener nut
to specs (don't know if things got loose during the landing).  If hydraulics
were at fault (and not fixed for the flight home), safety wire the main gear
and nose gear overcenter mechanisms into the down and locked positions, and
pull the gear pump circuit breaker.  If hydraulics are working, disregard
this suggestion.
Terrible Christmas present!
Glad everyone is okay!
Scott B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <scott@tnstaafl.net>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:38 AM
Subject: REFLECTOR:Gear Speed


> I landed at CXP yesterday with my nose gear up.  I tried for 1/2 an hour
> to get it to come down but it refused. Long story I will tell later when
> I'm a home.
>
> Nobody was hurt, me and my wife.  Though she was shaken up quite a bit by
> the event.
>
> The plane handled it well.  Its truly amazing how far the nose drops
> without a nose gear. A considerable amount of the nose was ground off, and
> of course the nose gear doors were trashed which were open.  It ground off
> a couple inches of the speed brake as well though it still functions.
>
> My question is about gear extended speed. I'm going to have to fly home
> from Cason City, NV to Grants NM with the gear down.  About a 3.5 hour
> flight at normal speeds.
>
> I've installed a temporairy aluminum plate over the gaping hole where the
> geard doors and some of the surrounding fusalage usde to be.  I've removed
> the main gear doors and taped the brake lines to the gear legs.
>
> I'm assuming the speed limit was done to keep the gear doors on and since
> i"m flying without them I can now go as fast as I can peddle.
>
> Anybody see anything wrong with that?  I'd call the factory but I'm pretty
> sure they are closed for the holidays.
>
> Scott
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