Thanks Karel for measurement
7 mm is great - I have now 5-6 mm
left and the reinforcement material I hope.
Please confirm you measured
Titan Turf Glide Tire!
Earlier I asked some recommendations
for mono tire and a great majority of you
suggested me to install size 7.00-6
and AirTrac was a clear winner.
So my conclusion is it cannot be worse
than the original golf car tire (golf cars
max taxi speed is about 10 knots, it has
four tires and the weight /tire is less than
150 kg /340 lbs - when touching Europas
speed is 5 times more and weight 2,5 times
more + G-forces).
I believe aircraft quality tire size 8.00-6 does not hit
normally caliber because of its overall quality and accurate
measurements. Tolerance is anyway minimal between
it and caliber. Non-aircraft tires may hit
bacause of the varies in quality and their limp
sides. Same reason for Kingleys differencies
with diameters.
My wife suggests one reason for the contact:
my caliber is maybe just bigger than normal one !
Karel, S landings or even SS-landings are better
than U or L -landings. I saw one L-landing in
Aalborg Denmark 9/9/07. It was SAS`s Dash 8
full of passengers and right side gear collapsed.
I cannot understand why they did not land to
the grass in the clean configuration.
It was awful to see but happily no fatals.
Anyway I will go on flying with this tire to the end of
this flying season. I promise I stop landing
if reinforcement material is visible or even
inner tire.
And have a CM- DOTH with Jos (caliber measurement).
Thanks for comments, all of you.
Raimo,
OH-XRT (with big caliber)
----- Original Message -----
From: "karelvranken" <karelvranken@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Tire question - cannot fly before information
> <karelvranken@hotmail.com>
>
> Dear Raimo,
> The tickness of the tire side is 7 mm. From the inside it looks like
> fabric impression, so I suppose it is reinforced. 3) yes. 4) So far I have
> no experience and I will not do it for you.
> S landings occur when you drink Koskenkorva vodka before flight.
> SS landings happened during WWII.
> Friendly yours,
> Karel Vranken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raimo Toivio" <raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>
> To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Tire question - cannot fly before information
>
>
>> 1) what is the exact thickness of the original
>> tire side? Somebody has an uninstalled tire /tyre
>> - please could he measure it?
>>
>> 2) are there some reinforcement material in the sides also
>> as Jos suppose? I am talking about Titan Turf Glide tire.
>>
>> 3) why I have some slightly contact with tire and brake calliber?
>> Is it only my problem? If I change to the size 7.00-6,
>> that contact is away - am I right?
>>
>> 4) what happens when landing with empty mono main wheel?
>> Or when it bangs during first touch?
>> Total catastrophe or what?
>> If so I hope nobody know!
>>
>> Have a nice weekend, Raimo
>> ===================
>> OH-XRT #417, flying w broken main tire...
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