Another Perfect Gear-Up

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
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Gear up landings are no big deal for a typical GA plane.
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In a Navion, you wreck the prop and grind the ends off the inboard flap
hinges.
No damage to the skin - assuming a reasonable paved surface.
(The nose wheel hangs down a couple inches even when retracted.)

You break the step off. Mine has a weld in the middle of it from
some previous owner's escapade. You also loose your antennas.

There were pictures from the "belly landing contest" at one of
the fly-ins, get a few guys to lift up a wing, prop some straw
bales under it, drop the gear, and you can roll it away.

Oh, yea, forgot the step. Ain't it great getting old. I'm told that the
second thing to go is your memory. I forget what the first thing is.

But, all in all, if you want to do a gear up landing, a Navion is probably
one of the better airplanes to do it in. :-)

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Geoff
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