REFLECTOR: Aircraft leveling

[Rene Dugas]

Jim,

I understand your concern.  Since I recently crushed my main, I would be
concerned that there was a small amount of compression of the leg 6
inches out from the pivot were mine compressed.  Since your gear door
attach broke it may be difficult to know if the gear is exactly the same
shape.  Since you have checked the gear and now re wrapped it and you
are sure there is no other damage, I'll bet you are ok too.  Time will
tell.  I found my nose gear bent too.  Got my new one today.  When I
replaced my gear leg with the replacement on my recent big trip, I cut
it off a little short about 1/4th inch so mine will probably not sit
level either.  Maybe we should park together somewhere and explain that
they are all that way.  Good Luck.  

Rene'

 

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Jim & Sharon Beck
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:01 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Aircraft leveling

 

 

 After a  really hard landing with side drift the gear on my 173 RG
showed cracking in the fiberglass & pain and also the gear doors broke
loose, more like a semi controlled crash. After removing the gear and
all paint and wraps to the core to check for damage, we determined they
were not damaged so redid the lay-ups with carbon fiber and reinstalled.
bolts were not bent and go in and out easily and no other apparent
damage.  The camber on the axels in the same as before in specs and the
upper gear fits tight in the sockets just as it did before but now I
have one wingtip about 2& 1/2 inches lower than the other and the spar
is no longer level sitting on the ground.. 

Does anyone have any Ideas as to what could have changed to cause this.
I would guess the remedy would be to move the sockets but then this
would change the camber and make it necessary to fix that also.  Im
planning to flyit this way and see if the legs change shape a little
after a few landings as everything else went right back in place.   

Thanks.

Jim

 

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