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Re: Monowheel landing gear upstop

Subject: Re: Monowheel landing gear upstop
From: Graham Singleton <grasingleton@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:29:12
>I suppose I missed the problem with this. Are people reporting problems with
>the gear going up too far in flight and causing problems? My little rubber
>stop experiment is out at the end of the gear, which would experience the
>minimum leverage force.
>Dave
>mini U2

Just make sure there is no friction tending to hold the gear up. You depend 
on gravity to get the gear started down, because there is NO leverage to 
get it moving from the retract lever when in the up position. Look at the 
geometry.
Graham



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