REFLECTOR: Shimmy on landing...Some clarifications please THANX!
Brian Michalk
michalk at awpi.com
Mon Apr 10 00:18:08 CDT 2006
Aye, fully castoring.
I've drawn up plans that I'm going to build one of these days. It's a
very small hydraulic cylinder that drives the sun gears of a planetary
gearbox. This gearbox would be very thin, like .25 inches thick, and
would mount on the castoring fork.
The slave cylinder would be coupled to the brake system. This would
require removing the existing single chamber master cylinders for a dual
chamber solution.
It would actually increase redundancy. As it is now, lose a brake and
you have no steering. With my design, a brake leak would cause you to
lose steering or braking, but not both.
First, I'm going to get my bird in the air.
Scott Derrick wrote:
> I'd rather have an actuator(damper) like Cessna's, though they have
> their own set of problems, mostly maintenance related, or lack there
> of. Not sure how to accomplish that on a fully castering nose wheel
> though.
>
> Scott
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