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rtoth1(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: Grove Landing Gear

I am building a 4-1200 with a Rotax 912UL IVO medium In-Flt adj. prop. I have the standard tube gear installed and am not too happy with it. Does anyone have a Grove Gear available they would like to get rid of???

 

 Robert S. Toth  rtoth1(at)verizon.net (rtoth1(at)verizon.net)

 Woodbridge, Virginia

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Fox5flyer
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: Grove Landing Gear

Robert, the 912 prop combo should be a good setup  for your IV, but just out of curiosity, what is it about the tube gear that you  aren't happy with?

 Deke Morisse

N148DM

S5/Soob/CAP

NE  Michigan



 [quote]I    am building a 4-1200 with a Rotax 912UL IVO medium In-Flt adj. prop. I have    the standard tube gear installed and am not too happy with it. Does anyone    have a Grove Gear available they would like to get rid of???



Robert S.    Toth  rtoth1(at)verizon.net (rtoth1(at)verizon.net)

Woodbridge,    Virginia

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kitfoxmike

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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Grove Landing Gear

...and what do you have against the Grove gear?

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Michel

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 966
Location: Norway

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: Grove Landing Gear

On May 17, 2007, at 7:49 PM, kitfoxmike wrote:

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Guys, the original tubular gear is fine. The aluminium Grove gear is 

probably stronger. Please, don't start a flame about it.

Incidentally, a Norwegian friend crashed his Avid Flyer last Sunday. He 

lost power of his Rotax 582 and had to make an emergency landing in a 

field. But the ground was more uneven than it looked like from up there 

and he broke his tubular gear and went nose down in the earth. He is 

unarmed but his plane is badly damaged. I have asked him permission to 

send his photo of the open 582 to this list and when I get it, I'll 

show you how a 582 can get badly damaged in flight.

In my opinion, if he had a Grove gear, it would probably have saved at 

least the plane. But hindsight is always very easy.



Cheers,

Michel Verheughe

Norway

Kitfox 3 - Jabiru 2200



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kitfoxmike

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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: Re: Grove Landing Gear

The only reason I said something is because anytime somebody wants a Grove gear... well you know where I'm going.  Today I had a hard landing, not anything to do with me, but because I landed behind a helicopter  that was doing touch and go's with hovering on the approach end of the runway.  Well what happened is I come in like normal, the winds calm and I pull slight nose up for the flair, all was fine than all of the sudden the plane goes up, then with antisipation for what is to happen I hit some power at the same time the plane drops to the ground with a little yaw (not a wing drop) and flop onto the landing gear, no bounce.  I feel If I had the tube gear the bungies would have broke, as it was the Grove gear kept on ticking.  The tube gear is nice, a little lighter, but has it's limitations.  The Grove gear will hold up to any abuse, within reason that is.   Down side to the Grove gear, if you take off and the role out is too  fast the wheels ,if out of balance, will bounce around a little bit. Upside to the Grove gear, no bungies to mess with on the annual.

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aaaron(at)tvp.com.au
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: Grove Landing Gear

While folks are relaying stories about how their grove gear has saved them, i'll add mine. I had an engine fail on my avid speedwing on take off a few months ago when I was around 60' up with only a few hundred feet of runway left. I had to land HARD to get it back down before I hit the trees. I am absolutely convinced that if I still had the tube gear I would have done substantial damage to my plane. No doubt in my mind. The $1200 I spent on the gear saved me much more than that in repairs.

allan



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