selecting wheels and tyres
Bob Kuykendall schreef:
On Mar 10, 4:57 am, jan olieslagers
wrote:
I am surprised at finding precious little information on how to select
wheels and tyres when designing a plane from scratch...
Have you checked the Pazmany book on light aircraft undercarriage
design? I don't have a copy, but that might be a good place to look.
I must humbly avow I did only some web research, no books consulted. I
do have large excerpts from the pre-war Desgrandschamps book, but when
it talks about a #10 wheel that is not very helpful either...
One thing it does say is the wheels must be overdimensioned so as to
allow five times their calculated max load - so if max gross is 800 kg,
each wheel must be able to support five times half of that, or 2000 kg.
Whether this figure of 5 was empirically determined, or bases upon some
law of physics, or on French law of the era, is left open though.
I read much good about the Pazmany books, mainly here - do they have
ISBN numbers? Would they be available in Europe (without paying
transtalantic DHL and a lot of import tax) ?
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