When trailers go bad OR How not to tow your Wright Brothers machine

wright1902glider wrote:


Since then, I've experimented by loading the trailer with sandbags. At
its max gross of 1150 lbs., its still uncontrollable in winds over 20
mph. There's not enough steel in the rolling chasis to change axles or
go to a tandem-axle. Since the trailer is currently configured to haul
my wings standing on their leading edges, ther's no real way to just
cut a little off the top. And since ballast doesn't seem to help much,
I'll have to concentrate on lowering the side profile. This means the
wings will now have to be transported flat, rather than on edge. That
will allow me to reduce the side profile by at least 1/2, if not more.
But it also means the new trailer box will have to be about 6' wide,
and the wings will need to ride in some sort of jig that will allow
them to be packaged and loaded as a single protected unit.

Never occured to me that a trailer would
have a max crosswind rating (: