Vibration can do a lot of damage, over time, and it's not very pleasant to fly for long periods in a vibrating environment even though you may have got used to it. I would strongly suggest that you
important that the sleeve is checked with a guage after compressing " - no mention of this in my build manual. It also says that a guage is available --From Aircraft Spruce but i cannot find one in t
Interestingly, we are looking into this very subject. The main concern is the shear strength of the reduced diameter pin. Once stress analysis has been carried out to satisfy JAR/VLA we can make a d
Snip:- The new tailwheel design was produced as a response to that very desire. Details are in Newsletter 18 recently published. The Europa was designed to help avoid landing fees, of course, by allo
It would be difficult to cut our standard blue foam to the thickness required accurately enough. The PVC foam is available ready cut to the correct sheet thickness. The question only related to the
You may also like to consider using a ground handling arm when maneouvring in reverse - the tailwheel is fitted with two spacers to allow this. Regards, Roger Bull
that a smoothly rounded tip produces the most induced drag, because of the ease with which higher pressure air can on the bottom of the wing can *escape* around to the top of the wing. vortices. I s
The tailwheel mod is from the factory (mod 43) and is detailed in the latest newsletter, No. 18, which was recently distributed. Cost is 199 pounds sterling. Regards - Andy
There is a remote possibility of the tailwheel spinning around 180 degrees, say by hitting a tuft of grass or whatever just as the tailwheel leaves the ground, which would leave you with compromised
A comment worth adding to the tailwheel mod saga in general (not to this posting in particular) is that we at Europa carried out a lot of taxiing/ take-off/ landing trials with various geometries of
The wing profile co-ordinates for the upper surface tip are already provided in the manual, page 9-18. The tip chord is 40", the root chord 50". You can interpolate for profiles in between. Accordin
that a 10% by weight of any coloidal silica additive is about the maximum you should go to otherwise sanding becomes too hard. It certainly does ease the filler's application though. Take care that
Difficult. The only time that I've attempted it I ended up destroying the glass flange. The worry over increased friction is most likely in the break out force being high enough to cause jerkiness i
If 0.061/0.084 = 0.72 In other words the shear strength of the smaller pin would be 72% of the larger. Other things need to be considered also, of course so before we could recommend changing the hin
Please note our posting of 26/11/97. This is one of many issues that we're working on. I'm afraid that we can't provide a blow-by-blow account of progress as it takes up too much time. If we find an
Dear Mr Morcillo, Thank you for your interest in our Europa aircraft. Following your recent correpondence regarding size and weight of Europa pilots and passengers, the Europa's designer, Ivan Shaw,