REFLECTOR: INCIDENT PHOTO

John Dibble aminetech at bluefrog.com
Sat Aug 25 17:12:22 CDT 2007


Doesn't the prop get damaged with the gear up?

John

Ann DaSilva wrote:

>  I have had the misfortune to have made 2 off airport landings due to
> engine failures one in a retract into a muddy field. I elected not to
> put the gear down and the only damage was a scratched belly. the
> second was in a fixed gear into a field with gulches which were
> covered with grass it tore the nose gear clean off and broke the
> canard bulkhead and canard spar If I had not had wheel pants on the
> mains which kept the mains from falling into the ditches the whole
> back end would have been torn off. Had it been a retract I would not
> have put the gear down and would have minimal damage, a scratched
> underbelly. My  experience, your choice as to which you do.
> But in a ( VELOCITY) I'm with Tom .                        Sam DaSilva
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