REFLECTOR: Mechanical Nose Gear Doors

[David Scharfenberg]

Actually neither of the movies are of my setup.  Several builders must  
be working on the same thing.  I tried to upload it to the gallery, but  
failed in my attempt.  The file is about 176KB.

Thanks,

Dave Scharfenberg


On Aug 10, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Scott Derrick wrote:

> Here's the video of Dave's latest NG mech.
>
> http://www.tnstaafl.net/canards/ng_mech.avi
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Derrick wrote:
>> here's the movie..
>>
>> http://www.tnstaafl.net/canards/NG%20Door%20Mechanism%20with%20Anti- 
>> Bounce%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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Richard J Gentil wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  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>
>>>>>
>>>>> <unknown.jpg>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Richard
>>>>>
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