REFLECTOR: RE: NOSE WHEEL GOT SIDEWAYS

[Rene Dugas]

Ditto for me.  Discovered I did not have the spacer at Oshkosh last year
talking with Scott at the factory tent.  I broke three tie rod ends
before the problem was diagnosed.
Rene' Dugas 270 hrs.

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of mike deeter
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:15 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: RE: NOSE WHEEL GOT SIDEWAYS

Tom:

I damaged some of that hardware early; it was because
my spacer on the gear door retract cylinder was not
the proper size (too short) and the cylinder was
trying to pull the piston into the cylinder when the
doors were closed.  That put pressure on the hardware
and eventually mangled it.  None of this happened
during flight but before flight when I was still
adjusting.  Make sure your spacer is the proper size
so it, not the closed gear doors, are stopping the
piston.

Mike Deeter
N2011P
Elite RG

 
--- Chuck Jensen <cjensen at dts9000.com> wrote:
> Tom,
>  
> Are you sure your nose gear didn't retract?  Without
> the lights going
> out, it may indicate the nose gear doors didn't
> close, which isn't too
> surprising if the connecting T had broken off, but
> the nose wheel may
> have been fully retracted..  Its kind of doubtful
> that the nose wheel
> got misaligned.  If you'd hit something hard enough
> to misalign the nose
> wheel at 70-80kts...you would have known it.  Were
> you able to confirm
> the nose gear truly was still down via the mirror on
> the canard...you do
> have a mirror there don't you?
>  
> 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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