REFLECTOR: maximum file attachment size?

[michalk]

250K.  If it get's rejected, it will tell you what size is allowed.

Sid Knox wrote:
> Would someone please tell me the maximum size file attachment allowed on 
> the
> REFLECTOR? I need to know how much to compress my (.jpg) photo files so as
> not to offend the list owner.
> Thanks,
> 
> Sid Knox
> Oklahoma
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Gietzen" <ALVentures at cox.net <mailto:ALVentures at cox.net>>
> To: "'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'" <reflector at tvbf.org 
> <mailto:reflector at tvbf.org>>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:48 PM
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Nosewheel shimmy_1
> 
> 
> Sid;
> 
> 
> 
> It could make the wheel turn sideways once retracted - if you don't have the
> wheel guide.
> 
> 
> 
> BTW; I don't think high speed taxi is a valid test. It seems that it is
> when that wheel drops on at 75 KIAS that the problem most likely occurs. I
> also have taxied at 65 KIAS with very low friction on the wheel and no
> problem.
> 
> 
> 
> But I agree. This issue has been hanging around, and causing inconvenience,
> for too long. The only real solution I've seen is the retracting pin lock
> idea that was posted awhile back; although it would be nice to have
> something that doesn't require pilot action.
> 
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org <mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org> 
> [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org <mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org>] On
> Behalf Of Sid Knox
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:09 PM
> To: reflector at tvbf.org <mailto:reflector at tvbf.org>
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Nosewheel shimmy_1
> 
> 
> 
> Nose wheel shimmy.
> One of the recurring irritations of an otherwise great airplane is the
> nosewheel anti-shimmy scheme. Velocity forum readers may recall this subject
> comes up periodically, stirs up a few people, and then dies with the
> generally lame advise to keep the Belview washers clean and tightened to
> some seemingly arbitrary value and stop whining.
> 
> To get into my hanger I must make a sharp 120 degree right followed
> immediately by a left 90. Sometimes I make it and sometimes I end up out in
> the weeds.
> 
> After the last time, I finally decided I was pissed enough to try and do
> something about it (no, not get another hanger).
> 
> I recalled in a previous go-around of this subject, someone had posted a
> link to an Air Force site (?) telling how the problem was solved on the
> F-15. Unfortunately, the article was 100% PR on what a wonderful group
> Managemant
> put together and 0 % on how they did it. But there was a photo that showed
> something hung on the nosewheel fork. I discussed the Velocity problem and
> the F-15 problem fix with local owner/operators and it was generally agreed
> that probably there was a mass, either solid or liquid (mercury?) inside.
> Well, the mass idea would be easy to try so I melted some lead and cast a
> rectangular weight. It ended up weighing about 25 oz. No "design" involved,
> just a "nice" size. I mounted it pointing forward as seen in the photo.
> Mounting was crude as this was to be a feasibility experiment. if it worked,
> I could build it better. If it didn't, then no big time lost.
> 
> With the big nut backed-off to near zero drag, I made two high-speed taxi
> tests. Two was all I could do together because of danger of overheating
> brakes. (Figure it out. well over 100 KW for several seconds time dumped
> into the tiny brakes. we're talking some serious heat here!).
> 
> No shimmy observed. I was feeling pretty smart until my teenage son
> pointed-out one potentially serious flaw in the scheme. As I was digesting
> that one, I thought of another probably catastrophic flaw.
> 
> This message is getting rather long so I will continue the tale in a
> follow-up. Anyone want to guess what are the two flaws? (clearance up in the
> nose when retracted was not one of them... there is a bunch of space up
> there).
> 
> Sid Knox
> Oklahoma
> Velocity N199RS
> W7QJQ
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