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Subject: Re: Europa-List: Mono dolly
From: Michel AUVRAY <mau11@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 14:54:20

Hello David,
Many thanks for your document it is very interesting.
I was made one.

Michel AUVRAY
F-PFGT 145

Le 01/12/2013 14:24, David Joyce a crit :
>
> For Michel and anyone else interested,  I attach a brief description 
> of my dolly which has proved very satisfactory for plane handling, 
> working on the undercarriage and for transport in a covered trailer. 
> It was made originally for another mono, but when he converted to a 
> trike I bought the trailer and fitted captive nuts to my plane by 
> simply drilling through the existing bolt holes in the dolly and then 
> bonding in nuts and largish washers on the inside of the fuselage 
> together with a bit of appropriate local strengthening. As far as I 
> can see none of the measurements are particularly critical although of 
> course the fibreglass bearing surfaces need to be nicely matched to 
> the fuselage. Having said that you do need to design it so that you 
> can get it underneath the plane in its normal wings on position. Can 
> send further views + measurements if anyone is keen to pursue it.
>           Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ



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