REFLECTOR: main gear legs

[Ron Brown]

I saw one Velocity at the factory that looked like it had a steel sleeve wrapped around the lower foot or so of the gear legs.  I wonder how well that works?  It would help with the heat dissipation from the brakes.

Anybody know about this one?

Ronnie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex 
  To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list' 
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:20 AM
  Subject: REFLECTOR: main gear legs


  speaking of carbon wrapped gear legs- has anyone ever had a non-heat related main gear failure? Seems most of the hard landing damage occurs to the bolts and bulkhead area.....



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  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of MMurp16900 at aol.com
  Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:26 PM
  To: reflector at tvbf.org
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Fast Velocity


  The weight and balance that I presented the FAA at original certification was 3000 lbs. gross weight.
  Gear legs are wrapped with carbon fiber and max landing weight 2700 lbs.
  My useful load 1000 lbs
  We operate out of 5300 ft runway length at standard day felid elevation 4400 ft
  Mack   XL RG IO540 300 hp. 





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