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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:25:24 -0400, Ernest Christley
<echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>I have taken painstaking care not to move the CG or change the airfoil,
>sweep or angles of the wings. I've made the nosegear fixed. That
>saved me 10lbs, lots of complication, and several failure modes. It may
>cost me a couple kts, but I consider them kts well spent. If I knew
>then what I know now, the main gear would be aluminum leaf springs.
>There's lots of weight in the gear retract mechanism, but its fairly
>evenly spread forward and aft of the CG.
Yep. An RV-7 gear would work nicely.
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>As for changing the ground attitude...you've got to get it high enough
>to put a prop on there. I do have less than 9 degrees nose-up, which is
>the limit. It's just under 8, if I recall correctly.
Even 8 is begging for pitch diversion on landing if anything goes
wrong. A little bounce and you're off to the races. It doesn't have
to have that high nose attitude - just a longer, fixed nose gear. A
lot of the gear design is left over from the original design goal of
making it roadable.
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