Eric_Kallio
Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 149
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject: Need wheel pant part numbers!!! Need new nosewheel pant |
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I left my plans at the hanger and I need to order both halves of a front wheel fairing for my -10. Search of the webstore pointed me to the RV-12 gear. Here is why I need a new fairing.
While on short final for the first of what was to be a couple of touch and goes during my fly-off I heard a bit of a buzzing out front. Nothing serious I thought since there was a bit of a cross wind I figured it was the nose wheel coming straight as I got below the trees and out of the crosswind. I touched down on the mains and started the flaps up, added power and picked right back up. At about 50 feet I heard a pop. That is when a friend in another aircraft waiting to take off called me on the radio asking if I planned to come back around and pick up the pieces of my nose wheel pant from the runway. According to him and another witness on the ground, when I first approached it looked like the left side of the wheel pant was fluttering as if it had pulled through the screws.When I hit the power for the go-around and picked up speed it "exploded"(their words) into about 8 major pieces. Post-mortem of the wheel pant supports the ground reports of potential pulled through mounting screws. The left screw holes are enlarged while the right ones held and I pulled some smaller pieces from under these screws. I will be redoing the wheel pant of course. Except this time I will be adding more glass to the sides and spreading the load with tinnerman washers at a minimum.
Eric Kallio
N518RV 16 hours of phase 1 remaining.
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