REFLECTOR: RE: NOSE WHEEL GOT SIDEWAYS

[Scott Derrick]

Rotating Strainer!! I like that...

:-)

Scott

Chuck Jensen wrote:

> Tom
> You say believed you lost the "T" fitting in flight. Did you check the 
> Velocity high speed rotating strainer that's attached to the engine to 
> see if it was detected, evidenced by leaving 'memory marks'? Idle 
> curiousity: Can anything fall off the plane's fuselage without going 
> through the prop at rotation speeds or above?
> Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* reflector-bounces at tvbf.org 
> [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]*On Behalf Of *Tom Martino
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:00 PM
> *To:* reflector at www.tvbf.org
> *Subject:* NOSE WHEEL GOT SIDEWAYS
>
> Something unusual happened to me today in flight … but fortunately, it 
> didn’t cause any major problems.
>
> I am not sure why it happened or what to do to prevent it … so I ask 
> all of you …
>
> I was doing touch-and-goes. On my last take-off … I noticed the nose 
> gear hadn’t retracted. So I lowered the gear (got greens) and landed.
>
> The nose gear door actuator has a “T” fitting screwed into the end of 
> the shaft which connects to the gear door rods (which open and close 
> the door).
>
> The “T” had snapped off the end of the actuator shaft.
>
> From what I surmised … the nose gear got sideways and grabbed the nose 
> gear doors on the way up (during retraction) and got wedged outside 
> the doors. As it pulled the doors up with a lot of force (while the 
> door actuator was still extended) it snapped the “T” fitting off the 
> end of the shaft.
>
> The only damage is the “T” fitting (which I lost in flight) and the 
> rod of the actuator which has a screw snapped off inside it.
>
> Has anyone ever head o this happening?
>
> Either I retracted my gear too soon, or the nose fork is too tight on 
> the spindle.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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