Texas Parasol

Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Aug 17, 5:27 pm, Fred the Red Shirt

...Here is where it gets interesting. The lower longerons
are curved. That means if those holes are drilled the
same for the front and back longeron the axes about
which those legs pivot will not be colinear, nor even
parallel...


Non-Euclidean geometry aside, that seems to me to be a rather sub-
optimal design approach. Nothing that a couple of rod ends or rubber
bushings couldn't fix. But it would probably be lighter and more
effective to just make the gear leg holes colinear, and then build,
adjust, or drill the fuselage to maintain that colinearity.


Which is the way it is done...

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Richard

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