REFLECTOR: upper gear doors

[John Abraham]

We end up taking the little doors off of planes coming in for two reasons.
First being that you can close off the bottom of the wing since the little
space where the gear door was is now acting as the cabin outlets for air
instead of the lower bolt hole cover.  Second, they are very prone to
fluttering if you don't install them correctly.  

 

                      John 

 

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Don Johnston
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:08 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: upper gear doors

 

IIRC, the small gear doors aren't part of the plans anymore.

I wanted them though, so I made my own. 

You can see my entry on building these "mini-doors" here
<http://www.velocity-xl.com/2009.html#2009-12> . Just scroll down to past
fitting the main gear doors.

 

To keep the doors pushed out, I used a small piece on titanium. That part is
on the new site
<http://www.velocity-xl.com/blog/2012/04/05/7-7-3-main-gear-doors-2/> .

 

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Jim & Sharon Beck <jsbeck618 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi All, need help again.  I have been going through the plansand can't find
where the directions are for making the small doors that cover the gap in
the fuselage.  

can anyone tell me which chapter or where they are located.

 

I gave up on the NACA cooling as my Downdraft from the armpit scoops cools
very well and the consensus was to leave it alone,

 

Thanks

Jim 

N29RP  173 Elite RG IO360/Electric MT


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