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'Speed Pants'...
("Kyle Boatright" wrote)
You'd need to have the thing rigged to fail in the "open" position, or an electrical glitch could result in a landing that went crunch, instead of chirp (or bounce, bounce, thud.) If one were to open and one remain closed ...well now: Let's see, if you landed on one wheel you'd maybe swing around to the closed pant side. Unless you tapped the brakes, then I suppose you'd swing (pivot!) around back to the free wheel side. Talk about some nasty differential steering. Montblack |
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"Montblack" wrote in message ... Let's see, if you landed on one wheel you'd maybe swing around to the closed pant side. Unless you tapped the brakes, then I suppose you'd swing (pivot!) around back to the free wheel side. I'm not sure you would even feel it if you landed with one or both doors closed. |
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"C.D.Damron" wrote in message news:vnumf.393883$084.251527@attbi_s22... I'm not sure you would even feel it if you landed with one or both doors closed. True enough, but I am also not sure that you would not end up on your nose or in a nasty ground loop. IMHO the added expense, complexity, and risk is not worth the presumed 2 mph speed gain. Vaughn |
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'Speed Pants'...
"Vaughn" wrote in message ... "C.D.Damron" wrote in message news:vnumf.393883$084.251527@attbi_s22... I'm not sure you would even feel it if you landed with one or both doors closed. True enough, but I am also not sure that you would not end up on your nose or in a nasty ground loop. IMHO the added expense, complexity, and risk is not worth the presumed 2 mph speed gain. Vaughn I heard that leaving them closed for landing simply scrapes through the doors and the pilot didn't even notice. I don't see any costs quoted, but I imagine they would cot a little more than simple pants. I like the auto actuating ideas... |
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'Speed Pants'...
We switched from the Glasair wheel pants on our Glasair to the "pressure
recovery" kind sold by Van's for the RV. More streamlined shape and comes down much lower on the wheel. Supposed to increase cruise speed 8 knots over the Glasair pants but I doubt that we saw more than 1-2. They look cool, however, and they are attached much better than the Glasair ones, which were always loose on preflight and needed tightening. ".Blueskies." wrote in message news ...originally for BD-4, but available for all. A little more speed for that RV? http://www.bedecorp.com/images/price...peed_pants.pdf -- Dan DeVillers http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html . |
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