REFLECTOR: Mechanical Nose Gear Doors

[Tom Martino]

It's very nice ... very good work.  But mine is so much more simple.  

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:48 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Mechanical Nose Gear Doors

here's the movie..

http://www.tnstaafl.net/canards/NG%20Door%20Mechanism%20with%20Anti-Boun
ce%20Spring.avi

Actually I just watched it and this is Dave's earlier version..

All of the "alternate" mechanism's use a spring to hold the doors open.

I just can't trust that. 

Scott

David Scharfenberg wrote:
> Ooops, forgot the picture!
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>> Here is a picture of mine.  I added two short springs to hold the 
>> doors shut with spring pressure and still allow the nose gear to move

>> up and down in turbulence.  I have a crude movie showing that if you 
>> are interested.  I tested it every way I could think of and it has 
>> worked well.  So far I have maybe 25 or 30 flights with it.
>>
>> Dave Scharfenberg
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>> On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Richard J Gentil wrote:
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>>>  Trying to reinvent the wheel. On the Standard RG, the nose gear 
>>> door actuator was not operating correctly so we decided to make a 
>>> mod to a mechanical door operation.
>>>
>>>  I am still a long was off from flying but I thought I would post a 
>>> pair of pictures to see if anyone might have any suggestions or 
>>> concerns. Obviously it works well on jacks, but there is no air 
>>> pressure on it, and I was looking for thoughts of how it might do in

>>> flight and if there is anything I should look into changing (i.e. 
>>> larger springs, etc.)
>>>
>>> <unknown.jpg>
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>>> <unknown.jpg>
>>>
>>>  Richard
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