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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:06:13 -0400, "Morgans"
<jsmorgan@charterJUNK.net> wrote:
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>"Richard Riley" <Richard@mylastname.net> wrote
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>> 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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>Are you sure about that? Are you taking the delta wing's need to come down
>nose high, to slow down to reasonable speeds for landing? How about getting
>the nose high enough for takeoff? If the nose were much lower, how fast
>would you need to go, to get enough elevon effectiveness to lift the nose
>for takeoff?
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>My guess, and forming an opinion from reading flight reports on the Dyke, is
>that the unusual attitude isn't a problem. While landing, you land nose
>high, and the speed becomes whatever is necessary to get a good sink rate.
>You do not come down fast, because you won't, if you are too fast. If
>anything, a bounce is a non incident, because you mush right back down after
>you bounce back into the air.
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>That is my take, anyway. I'd want to fly one, before I went messing
>with the landing gear geometry.
>
>I do think fixing the gear is reasonable, though.
Without getting into details, I've enough non-reading-flight-reports
information to be confident about it.
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