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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:14 am    Post subject: Grove Streamlined Gear For RV-8... Reply with quote

RV Listers,

Grove makes a streamlined, airfoiled landing gear for the RV-8. Saves having to use the fiberglass. They also have the brake line embedded within the gear leg. Over all, they weigh a few pounds less.

Does anyone have any experience with these gear legs? What is the cost differential over the stock ones? Do they fit as good or better than stock?

Should an RV-8 builder bother with the hassle of deleting the stock ones from the Van's kit and ordering these?

And another historic question... Why-o-why did Van's get away from the super sweet looking swept-back, Whitman-style gear on the RV-8? The spring steel, forward facing gear on the RV-8 just look dopy...

Matt


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:17 pm    Post subject: Grove Streamlined Gear For RV-8... Reply with quote

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RV Listers,

Grove makes a streamlined, airfoiled landing gear for the RV-8. Saves having to use the fiberglass. They also have the brake line embedded within the gear leg. Over all, they weigh a few pounds less.

Does anyone have any experience with these gear legs? What is the cost differential over the stock ones? Do they fit as good or better than stock?

Should an RV-8 builder bother with the hassle of deleting the stock ones from the Van's kit and ordering these?

And another historic question... Why-o-why did Van's get away from the super sweet looking swept-back, Whitman-style gear on the RV-8? The spring steel, forward facing gear on the RV-8 just look dopy...

Matt

I know only one person who's used them, & he did it for the weight
savings. It was a pretty expensive way to save weight.

Only Van knows for sure, but I'd bet that it was an engineering
decision, with money being a small contributor. The -8 is about a foot
longer than the -4 & stands a lot taller, so the gear legs would have
been a lot longer & much heavier to get the wheels in the right place
with the extra strength needed for the much higher gross weight of the
-8. Those gear towers do look like a real pain, though. They take up a
lot of room in the front cockpit & the guys I know with -8's all
complain about torquing the gear bolts.

Charlie


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