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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Dear All
Wikipedia has a small entry on flutter (see below). This refers to a critical airspeed for a given system. It reminded me that on the only occasion I flew an aircraft which fluttered (ailerons on a badly rigged Jodel D9) there was a critical airspeed above which the flutter started, below which it stopped (it never progressed to anything more than a side to side shaking of the stick and we cured it eventually by reducing the droop of the ailerons). Anyway, the issue about a critical speed begs the following question: if, despite all the measures we are all about to take to prevent flutter on our Europas, it does start to happen again to one of us, would there be time to arrest the flutter by smartly reducing airspeed before catastrophic damage occurs?
In addition to the many other unanswered questions about William's crash is this: Why did it happen WHEN it happened? If there was slop somewhere in the system, it would presumably have built up slowly over time, so why did it go catastrophic when it did? Someone said yesterday, I believe, that the aircraft had just had its Permit Renewal Inspection, which is normally followed by the test flight including Vne dive. So, could it have been a speed-triggered flutter?
By the way, correspondence on this site some time ago about what Vne really means revealed that some people do not regard the 165kts Vne as a velocity never to be exceeded. Could the crash aircraft have been going faster than 165kts? Or maybe it was just going a lot faster than it had been for a year and that was enough.
The link to the story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the Wikipedia entry is worth following. Also, worth watching the video link in the same entry of the bridge fluttering towards its collapse - like a slow motion version of a tailplane. The bridge was resonating in torsion but other modes of vibration, including bending can be involved. Can anyone comment on whether tailplane flutter is more likely to involve torsional or bending motion (in the torque tube and/or the fuseage)?
Willie Harrison
Flutter
Flutter in aircraft structures, control surfaces and bridge engineering, aeroelastic flutter is a rapid self-excited motion, potentially destructive, usually present above some limiting aircraft speed
Flutter is a self-starting vibration that occurs when a lifting surface bends under aerodynamic load. Once the load reduces, the deflection also reduces, restoring the original shape, which restores the original load and starts the cycle again. In extreme cases the elasticity of the structure means that when the load is reduced the structure springs back so far that it overshoots and causes a new aerodynamic load in the opposite direction to the original. Even changing the mass distribution of an aircraft or the stiffness of one component can induce flutter in an apparently unrelated aerodynamic component.
At its mildest this can appear as a "buzz" in the aircraft structure, but at its most violent it can develop uncontrollably with great speed and cause serious damage to or the destruction of the aircraft.
Flutter can also occur on structures other than aircraft. One famous example of flutter phenomena is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge [quote][b]
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Mark Burton
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: Re: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Until we see the results of the AAIB investigation we can only speculate as to what really happened.
However, regarding the flutter theory due to sloppy tailplanes, consider:
1 -- How many Europas are known to have suffered tailplane flutter and fallen to pieces while flying?
2 -- How many Europas have rather sloppy tailplanes and have been flying like that for some time (possibly years)?
I am not saying that we should not be checking/improving the integrity of the tailplanes.
Mark
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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William, At the PFA today I was told that the radar trace of William's plane
showed it was going at 90 knots or so. He would have done his Vne dive
somewhere on the way back from Cornwall - all very perplexing.
Did my Permit renewal test flying today and didn't like to ask
someone to come along as ballast/observer!
Regards, David Joyce
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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We still can't avoid the question: why did this happen WHEN it did?
Mark makes a good point about slop, in any case, slop would normally
built up slowly. David's information about speed seems to rule that
out as a trigger event. Just a thought, but if one of the stabs
became disengaged, for any reason (sideways movement, loss of TP14D
pin - secured by a single small split pin) from the TP12/13 drive
flange, presumably the other stab would instantly be countering all
of the mass in the TP19 weights, thereby creating a sudden and huge
mass imbalance - enough to cause catastrophic flutter?
Willie
On 22 Jun 2007, at 17:55, David Joyce wrote:
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<davidjoyce(at)doctors.org.uk>
William, At the PFA today I was told that the radar trace of
William's plane
showed it was going at 90 knots or so. He would have done his Vne dive
somewhere on the way back from Cornwall - all very perplexing.
Did my Permit renewal test flying today and didn't like
to ask
someone to come along as ballast/observer!
Regards, David Joyce
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Hi William H.
Quote: | We still can't avoid the question: why did this happen WHEN it did? Mark
makes a good point about slop, in any case, slop would normally built up
slowly. David's information about speed seems to rule that out as a
trigger event. Just a thought, but if one of the stabs became
disengaged, for any reason (sideways movement, loss of TP14D pin -
secured by a single small split pin) from the TP12/13 drive flange,
presumably the other stab would instantly be countering all of the mass
in the TP19 weights, thereby creating a sudden and huge mass imbalance -
enough to cause catastrophic flutter?
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Somebody from the UK told me once: We are like mushrooms. We are kept in
the dark, and once in a while we are allowed to see the light, and
somebody throws shit at us. In this case i get the same feeling.
Talking to Graham last night, we decided that at 90 knots there is very
little chance of flutter. But the load on the tailplane is minimal at that
speed. Now, if TP6 was loose, this was the time for the tail plane to move
out wards, disengage from the TP 12 pins and turn square to the direction
of flight, and so destroy itself, shake a wing loose and destroy the
plane. Not necessarily in that order. But as said,we are kept in the dark
and so on, so this is just another speculation.
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
http://www.europaowners.org/kit600
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carl(at)flyers.freeserve. Guest
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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It isnt a matter of keeping people in the dark but of arriving at the
correct conclusion. IMHO it is far better to say nothing than to arrive at a
flawed judgement.
And as for this being a British phenomenon what sparked off Tony Blairs war
on Iraq. The assumption that they had WMD with little or no evidence to back
it up. OK, sorry for getting political.
It is to be commended that the PFA have responded so quickly to this
situation and I doubt very much if the answer is as clear cut as people may
wish. At the moment their priority is to prevent a recurrence of this tragic
accident even if it means barking up a few wrong trees. When they have had
the opportunity to fully consider the evidence I am sure we will be amongst
the first to hear.
Purely on the speculation that one of the tailplanes may have moved outboard
and disengaged the drive pins it is a possibility. However I think it highly
unlikely that the disengaged tailplane could have "turned square" as has
been suggested. If you consider the area of tailplane foreward of the torque
tube as compared with the area behind, air pressure would keep the tailplane
in line with the aircraft. I suspect that once disengaged from the drive
pins the unrestrained tailplane would start to oscillate and then flutter.
What effect this disengagement would have on the remaining tailplane is hard
to predict. True there would now be an imbalance in the tailplane assembly
but any force exerted by the mass balance arm could be counteracted by force
applied to the control column. Have you never sat in the plane withouthe
tailplanes connected and moved the stick back and forth. It is heavy but not
impossible to move.
As for it being unlikely that flutter would occur at 90kts my understanding
is that flutter can happen at any speed. What speed does it take to cause
flags to flutter in the wind 10-20knots (even less).
I believe that if there had been a straightford and simple explanation, we
would have heard by now. It is in nobodys interests to keep us in the dark.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Thanks, Jos, I share your frustration about not knowing the full
story (yet). Even when the immediate safety checks have been done it
will still be something of an act of faith that they will completely
preclude a repetition. I expect we'd all like to know very precisely
what happened before we could have full confidence that any
particular fix will prevent it from happening again. I also expect
that eventually we will reach that level of understanding and can go
back to trusting our beautiful little aeroplanes.
90kts was presumably the ground speed as taken from a radar trace.
Airspeed could easily have been +/- 30kts, maybe more, away from that
figure, given the effect of both wind and a possible steep dive.
Would a stab turn 90 degrees when its centre of pressure would be so
far aft of the torque tube? I would have expected it to continue to
point in roughly the right direction until and unless it came right off.
By the way, the Gasco seminar at Farnborough on 8 August is going to
include a tour of the investigation hangers where they do the
forensic analysis on recent wrecks. I believe that is where G-HOFC is
being examined.
Regards
Willie Harrison
On 23 Jun 2007, at 14:13, Jos Okhuijsen wrote:
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Hi William H.
> We still can't avoid the question: why did this happen WHEN it
> did? Mark makes a good point about slop, in any case, slop would
> normally built up slowly. David's information about speed seems to
> rule that out as a trigger event. Just a thought, but if one of
> the stabs became disengaged, for any reason (sideways movement,
> loss of TP14D pin - secured by a single small split pin) from the
> TP12/13 drive flange, presumably the other stab would instantly be
> countering all of the mass in the TP19 weights, thereby creating a
> sudden and huge mass imbalance - enough to cause catastrophic
> flutter?
Somebody from the UK told me once: We are like mushrooms. We are
kept in the dark, and once in a while we are allowed to see the
light, and somebody throws shit at us. In this case i get the same
feeling.
Talking to Graham last night, we decided that at 90 knots there is
very little chance of flutter. But the load on the tailplane is
minimal at that speed. Now, if TP6 was loose, this was the time for
the tail plane to move out wards, disengage from the TP 12 pins and
turn square to the direction of flight, and so destroy itself,
shake a wing loose and destroy the plane. Not necessarily in that
order. But as said,we are kept in the dark and so on, so this is
just another speculation.
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:06 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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You make some fair points, Carl. I think police detectives call it
the ABC approach: Accept nothing, Believe nobody, Check everything.
I can only agree that it is in our interests that the investigators
take as much time as is needed to get the right answer, even though
that leads to short term anxiety and frustration.
I'm not sure I agree with what you say about stick forces since you
are not just trying to counter the deadweight of the remaining stab
but the dynamic forces from the self excited oscillation which is
drawing enormous energy out out the airflow.
I could imagine either or both of the decoupled stabs fluttering. If
it is true that the tailplane fractured off the fuselage then it
suggests that structural oscillation in the fuselage may have been a
component of the flutter (?like the V-tailed Bonanzas??)
Willie Harrison
On 23 Jun 2007, at 15:01, Carl Pattinson wrote:
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<carl(at)flyers.freeserve.co.uk>
It isnt a matter of keeping people in the dark but of arriving at
the correct conclusion. IMHO it is far better to say nothing than
to arrive at a flawed judgement.
And as for this being a British phenomenon what sparked off Tony
Blairs war on Iraq. The assumption that they had WMD with little or
no evidence to back it up. OK, sorry for getting political.
It is to be commended that the PFA have responded so quickly to
this situation and I doubt very much if the answer is as clear cut
as people may wish. At the moment their priority is to prevent a
recurrence of this tragic accident even if it means barking up a
few wrong trees. When they have had the opportunity to fully
consider the evidence I am sure we will be amongst the first to hear.
Purely on the speculation that one of the tailplanes may have moved
outboard and disengaged the drive pins it is a possibility. However
I think it highly unlikely that the disengaged tailplane could have
"turned square" as has been suggested. If you consider the area of
tailplane foreward of the torque tube as compared with the area
behind, air pressure would keep the tailplane in line with the
aircraft. I suspect that once disengaged from the drive pins the
unrestrained tailplane would start to oscillate and then flutter.
What effect this disengagement would have on the remaining
tailplane is hard to predict. True there would now be an imbalance
in the tailplane assembly but any force exerted by the mass balance
arm could be counteracted by force applied to the control column.
Have you never sat in the plane withouthe tailplanes connected and
moved the stick back and forth. It is heavy but not impossible to
move.
As for it being unlikely that flutter would occur at 90kts my
understanding is that flutter can happen at any speed. What speed
does it take to cause flags to flutter in the wind 10-20knots (even
less).
I believe that if there had been a straightford and simple
explanation, we would have heard by now. It is in nobodys
interests to keep us in the dark.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Hi Carl,
Quote: | It isnt a matter of keeping people in the dark but of arriving at the
correct conclusion. IMHO it is far better to say nothing than to arrive
at a flawed judgement.
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It's that attitude where i am pointing to, IMHO it's better to use all
brains available, feed all the facts and see where the discussion leads.
The change that the right solution is found is certainly not smaller. In a
way that is happening here. Excluding myself, there are some very
knowledgeable folks around here. The problem is that the facs are few and
secondhanded. And we all feel insecure.
Quote: | It is to be commended that the PFA have responded so quickly to this
situation and I doubt very much if the answer is as clear cut as people
may wish. At the moment their priority is to prevent a recurrence of
this tragic accident even if it means barking up a few wrong trees. When
they have had the opportunity to fully consider the evidence I am sure
we will be amongst the first to hear.
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Simply grounding every plane certainly makes the flying a lot safer, no
doubt about it. But it does not affect all Europas outside the UK. One
more reason for openess about what happened.
There are a lot of Europas flying around with sloppy tailplanes. Why did
this happen now and how and what evidence is there is what we would like
to hear. That will not impede the investigation, and maybe prevent
accidents outside the jurisdiction of the PFA.
Quote: | Purely on the speculation that one of the tailplanes may have moved
outboard and disengaged the drive pins it is a possibility. However I
think it highly unlikely that the disengaged tailplane could have
"turned square" as has been suggested. If you consider the area of
tailplane foreward of the torque tube as compared with the area behind,
air pressure would keep the tailplane in line with the aircraft. I
suspect that once disengaged from the drive pins the unrestrained
tailplane would start to oscillate and then flutter.
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Could it be that the moment the drive pins disengage the plane will
sharply dive or climb, resulting in the loose tailplane turning square?
Quote: | As for it being unlikely that flutter would occur at 90kts my
understanding is that flutter can happen at any speed. What speed does
it take to cause flags to flutter in the wind 10-20knots (even less).
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Sure, but certainly less likely as close to VNE. The flags will flutter
quit a bit more too.
Quote: |
I believe that if there had been a straightford and simple explanation,
we would have heard by now. It is in nobodys interests to keep us in
the dark.
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So,let'shave the facts. Conclusions may come later.
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
http://www.europaowners.org/kit600
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Don't know if it's important, and i can't really oversee the implications,
if it's important let somebody please bring it to the attention of the
accident ivestigators. I doubt if they do investigate these archives.
In one of the threads about the tailplane drive the following message has
been written:
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Mod. 62 -
Replacement of tailplane torque tube drive
The other way is to clean the drive sleeve and torque tube surfaces with
acetone and a jet of compressed air, then use a wicking grade Loctite to
bond them together after lining up the tailplane trailing edges. It must be
about 800 to 900 hours since I did that to mine and they are still solid. I
will, of course, have to deal with dismantling if I ever have to, but a
heat
source inside the torque tube should do the trick. I also had to provide
some lubricating tubes to replace the oil into the torque tube bearings,
because the acetone washes that out too.
Regards,
William
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Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
http://www.europaowners.org/kit600
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Good point Jos,
however, all UK Europas are not grounded, they have just given us some
fairly tight criteria to consider.
one tailplane pin was bent 90 degrees?!
How steep is the dive to reach Vne without power and was the radar speed
calculated to take into account wind and angle of dive?
Graham
Jos Okhuijsen wrote:
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Hi Carl,
It's that attitude where i am pointing to, IMHO it's better to use all
brains available, feed all the facts and see where the discussion
leads. The change that the right solution is found is certainly not
smaller. In a way that is happening here. Excluding myself, there are
some very knowledgeable folks around here. The problem is that the facs
are few and secondhanded. And we all feel insecure.
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Quote: |
Simply grounding every plane certainly makes the flying a lot safer, no
doubt about it. But it does not affect all Europas outside the UK. One
more reason for openess about what happened.
So,let'shave the facts. Conclusions may come later.
Jos Okhuijsen
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:21 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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From the sound of it, many contributors to this forum are converging
on a hypothesis about the failure sequence along the following lines:
- Slop builds up between TP12 and TP4. Perhaps this starts as a
finite amount of freeplay from an imperfect build and then continues
to build up through the repeated little impacts of the stabs and mass
balance bouncing off each other during normal and abnormal use, eg
taxiing over rough ground, effects of being trailered etc)
- Eventually, the slop builds to the point the pip pins are sharing
some of the torsional loads via the TP6s. This puts increasing load
on the bonded joint between the TP6 and the stab until one day that
joint fails.
- The implication is that the aircraft was not built with the "belt
and braces" geometry in the pip pin recess (is this correct?), which
would mean that the failed TP6 bond would permit lateral movement of
the stab
- the stab would therefore disengage both TP12/13 drive flange and
also the trim tab T bar. The Trim tab T bar would at this point also
be free to disengage from the other stab as well
- The system is now hugely different from the design condition: 50%
mass imbalance between the remaining stab and the TP19, one
unrestrained stab (perhaps it came off all together ), the other stab
perhaps detached from its trim tab. Flutter starts
- The implication is that events moved very quickly - no time for any
kind of distress message. The suggestion is that the flutter built
quickly and put severe oscillating loads on the rear fuselage,
perhaps torsional, and/or bending loads, until the rear fuselage
fractured (is it correct that it detached completely?), at which
point all control was lost
- At some point in or following the above sequence it has been
implied (in PFA 247/FSB 007) that there was a failure of the rear
wing attachment pin. If so, it sounds like this was a consequence of
the above, not a contributory cause.
Does this reflect the consensus about what probably happened and why,
or does anyone have an alternative explanation?
Willie Harrison
On 24 Jun 2007, at 01:30, Jos Okhuijsen wrote:
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Don't know if it's important, and i can't really oversee the
implications, if it's important let somebody please bring it to the
attention of the accident ivestigators. I doubt if they do
investigate these archives.
In one of the threads about the tailplane drive the following
message has been written:
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Mod. 62 -
Replacement of tailplane torque tube drive
The other way is to clean the drive sleeve and torque tube surfaces
with
acetone and a jet of compressed air, then use a wicking grade
Loctite to
bond them together after lining up the tailplane trailing edges. It
must be
about 800 to 900 hours since I did that to mine and they are still
solid. I
will, of course, have to deal with dismantling if I ever have to,
but a heat
source inside the torque tube should do the trick. I also had to
provide
some lubricating tubes to replace the oil into the torque tube
bearings,
because the acetone washes that out too.
Regards,
William
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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On Sunday, June 24, 2007, at 02:39 AM, Graham Singleton wrote:
Quote: | one tailplane pin was bent 90 degrees?!
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Wow!...first I'd heard of that...Would that have been a TP14 or a pip
pin?
Fred
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:56 am Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Hallo William,
Quote: | From the sound of it, many contributors to this forum are converging
on a hypothesis about the failure sequence along the following lines:
- Slop builds up between TP12 and TP4. Perhaps this starts as a finite
amount of freeplay from an imperfect build and then continues to build
up through the repeated little impacts of the stabs and mass balance
bouncing off each other during normal and abnormal use, eg taxiing
over rough ground, effects of being trailered etc)
- Eventually, the slop builds to the point the pip pins are sharing
some of the torsional loads via the TP6s. This puts increasing load on
the bonded joint between the TP6 and the stab until one day that joint
fails.
Maybe TP6 might also come adrift in the absence of slop?
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Transport? Rigging? Maybe a good shove is needed to engage drive pins in
sockets?
Regards,
Jan de Jong
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Jos
was that William Mills' email? Highly relevant to the investigation.
Graham
Jos Okhuijsen wrote:
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Don't know if it's important, and i can't really oversee the
implications, if it's important let somebody please bring it to the
attention of the accident ivestigators. I doubt if they do investigate
these archives.
In one of the threads about the tailplane drive the following message
has been written:
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Mod. 62 -
Replacement of tailplane torque tube drive
The other way is to clean the drive sleeve and torque tube surfaces with
acetone and a jet of compressed air, then use a wicking grade Loctite to
bond them together after lining up the tailplane trailing edges. It must be
about 800 to 900 hours since I did that to mine and they are still solid. I
will, of course, have to deal with dismantling if I ever have to, but a
heat
source inside the torque tube should do the trick. I also had to provide
some lubricating tubes to replace the oil into the torque tube bearings,
because the acetone washes that out too.
Regards,
William
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: Wikipedia's entry on flutter |
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Pip pin I think, can you confirm Jeremy? No one has yet worked out how
that happened.
Graham
Fred Klein wrote:
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On Sunday, June 24, 2007, at 02:39 AM, Graham Singleton wrote:
> one tailplane pin was bent 90 degrees?!
Wow!...first I'd heard of that...Would that have been a TP14 or a pip pin?
Fred
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Resent message since the Matronics Forum will not receive mail as a "cc"
recipient.
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