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"Ron Wanttaja" <ron.wanttaja@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ldnhn25h1icdbsn44lq6725vm7kruadcq3@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:55:08 -0500, "J.Kahn" <jdkahn@REMOVEvideotron.ca>
> wrote:
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>>> I have worked on three Fly Babies, two from the eighties and one from the
>>> seventies. Their glue joints were sturdy, and one of them had had some
>>> awful rough landings which broke the 4130 landing gear and ruined some
>>> of the welded steel fuselage attach fittings. Best I could tell the
>>> glue in all three was resorcinol. Pete Bowers is an honored immortal
>>> for designing such a great little wooden airplane that can flare 20
>>> feet off the deck and still remain intact.
>>>
>>> Somewhere in Ron Wanttaja's literature I read of a Fly Baby
>>> cartwheeling and the wings did not collapse. Fuselage was damaged but
>>> the pilot lived to tell the story.
>>
>>I once amazed myself by bouncing a Flybaby about 8 or so feet in the
>>air, which I thought wasn't possible with just tires for shock absorption
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> I pegged a 4-G g-meter on a landing once. No damage, and that was on a
> gear leg
> that had been improperly repaired from a crash 15 years earlier.
>
> Ron Wanttaja
I have seen 2G's on landing, but never more than that. Of course, the RV's
gear probably has more spring to it than the Flybaby's tires, so my 2 G
arrival may not have any more energy than your 4, but 4??? Ouch. That's a
nice way to chip a tooth or something.
KB
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Re: Glue it to it
