Nice pictures but what we really need are clear closeups of the fracture surfaces and a clear description of the location of the origin of the fracture and the supporting structure, on the airframe and the undercarriage.
That might tell whether something more than just changing the bolts at some schedule prior to likely failure is sufficient.



On Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 9:58:43 PM UTC-7, wowway news wrote:
Each side of the landing gear of the Pawnee is fastened with 3 bolts. Each
fore and aft outboard bolts connect through 2 sets of tabs welded to the
lower fuselage longeron. Our right hand gear is slightly loose at the
forward attach point . Either the holes in the 2 tabs are worn out-of-round
or the bolt is worn (or both). Do not know the actual condition as the bolt
has not been pulled yet (cold in the north country).
Have any other Pawnee operators seen this problem? If so, what was the
problem and what was your method to fix.

Duane Eisenbeiss
eisenbeiss at compuserve dot com