Morgans wrote:
"Richard Riley" wrote
Even 8 is begging for pitch diversion on landing if anything goes
wrong. A little bounce and you're off to the races. It doesn't have
to have that high nose attitude - just a longer, fixed nose gear. A
lot of the gear design is left over from the original design goal of
making it roadable.

Are you sure about that? Are you taking the delta wing's need to come down
nose high, to slow down to reasonable speeds for landing? How about getting
the nose high enough for takeoff? If the nose were much lower, how fast
would you need to go, to get enough elevon effectiveness to lift the nose
for takeoff?

My guess, and forming an opinion from reading flight reports on the Dyke, is
that the unusual attitude is not a problem. While landing, you land nose
high, and the speed becomes whatever is necessary to get a good sink rate.
You don't come down fast, because you won't, if you are too fast. If
anything, a bounce is a non incident, because you mush right back down after
you bounce back into the air.

That is my take, anyway. I would want to fly one, before I went messing
with the landing gear geometry.


I have an Xplane model. Not the real thing, but eh...