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dlm46007(at)cox.net
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: wheel pants and leg fairings during flight test |
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Have builders left the aluminium pieces on the nose and main wheels during initial flight tests? How well do brake lines do when clamped in place without fairings during testing?.
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Tim Olson
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: wheel pants and leg fairings during flight test |
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I think I took the front off but left the rear on for sure. No big
deal. I did use flex teflon lines on the lower end though, so I
needed a way to keep them stationary, so I have adel clamps on
those mains that keep the hoses in nice loops. So, the lines stayed
just great for me.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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wvu(at)ameritel.net
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: wheel pants and leg fairings during flight test |
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I left my aluminum pieces on without wheel pants. No ill effect. No ill effect with the brake lines either. I used the tape per plans in three places to hold the brake lines against the gear legs.
Anh
N591VU-105hrs
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Dave(at)AirCraftersLLC.co
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: wheel pants and leg fairings during flight test |
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I used some silicone fusion tape to pad the gear legs and brake lines, then just zip tied the lines to the legs top, mid, and bottom. They were fine for 40 hours.
I did all the flight testing with the brackets on the mains but not on the nose. The nose bracket is kind of more natural in the fairing anyway--that's were it will be when you install it on the fork.
Tim's extensions hung in the breeze too.
Dave Saylor
AirCrafters LLC
140 Aviation Way
Watsonville, CA
831-722-9141
831-750-0284 CL
www.AirCraftersLLC.com
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John Kirkland
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: wheel pants and leg fairings during flight test |
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I don't mean to hijack the thread from dlm46007, but reading this and reflecting on recent events in the RV-10 builders community, wouldn't one want to do the later portion of the flight testing with gear leg fairings and wheel pants on? Doesn't AC 90-89A advise us that one purpose of flight test is to gather performance data with which to build tables and/or charts of things like take-off and landing distance, cruise performance, climb performance, ie the stuff you find in a Cessna POH in section 5? Seems like the plane should be in a 'completed' configuration once one has confidence that all of the minor squawks are fixed and new ones aren't cropping up, nothing is dripping or sparking. Seems to me like one would want to know hard performance numbers and have completed POH, with calibrated instrumentation to boot, before taking off on long cross countries to FL or OSH. Did anyone do their flight testing like that?
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