Ron,

You're right. The gear retraction isn't going to cause the airplane
to roll over and crash, good grief. Where do these tales begin?
Maybe with a pilot who screwed up and had to find something to blame
other than himself?

All the best,
Rick

Ron Natalie wrote in message om...
G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Roger wrote:

Even if there is precession on the gear the one on one side moves the
opposite direction of the other. The forces cancel out as far as the
airplane would be concerned.


You're assuming that both mains would come up simultaneously. This was not the case
with some of the old military birds. I don't know if the B-24 or B-25 gear does this
or not.

The don't come up at the same time in my plane. Navions all wiggle a little bit
during gear retraction as those fat tires come up one slightly before the other.

But as heavy as a B24 is (and heavy on the controls too) I can't see even one gear
coming up and one staying down and it being made of lead would roll that thing over.