Slick aircraft tires

Anybody know of a source for slick aircraft tires?

The canard design front nose tire tends to throw pebles back
toward the pusher prop. I figure a slick tire without groves
would do it less.

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SQ2000 canard: http://www.abri.com/sq2000

Paul Lee wrote:

Anybody know of a source for slick aircraft tires?

No, but...

The canard design front nose tire tends to throw pebles back
toward the pusher prop. I figure a slick tire without groves
would do it less.

http://www.avtesting.com/Documents/C...s/Airframe.txt
Question #344

Chines are used on some aircraft nose wheel tires to
A) help nose gear extension at higher air speeds.
B) help reduce the possibility of hydroplaning.
- C) help deflect water away from the fuselage.

Maybe pebbles too?

Do you know what a "chine" is?

Colibri wrote in message ...
Paul Lee wrote:

Anybody know of a source for slick aircraft tires?

No, but...

The canard design front nose tire tends to throw pebles back
toward the pusher prop. I figure a slick tire without groves
would do it less.

http://www.avtesting.com/Documents/C...s/Airframe.txt
Question #344

Chines are used on some aircraft nose wheel tires to
A) help nose gear extension at higher air speeds.
B) help reduce the possibility of hydroplaning.
- C) help deflect water away from the fuselage.

Maybe pebbles too?

Paul Lee wrote:
Do you know what a "chine" is?

Yep.
Do you know what a chine is when it's part of a tire sidewall? Couldn't
find a picture online, sorry.

Colibri wrote in message ...
Paul Lee wrote:

Anybody know of a source for slick aircraft tires?

No, but...

The canard design front nose tire tends to throw pebles back
toward the pusher prop. I figure a slick tire without groves
would do it less.

http://www.avtesting.com/Documents/C...s/Airframe.txt
Question #344

Chines are used on some aircraft nose wheel tires to
A) help nose gear extension at higher air speeds.
B) help reduce the possibility of hydroplaning.
- C) help deflect water away from the fuselage.

Maybe pebbles too?

Colibri wrote in message ...

Do you know what a chine is when it's part of a tire sidewall? Couldn't
find a picture online, sorry.


That's begging the question. Never heard off a "chine" in any case.

There is such a thing as trying to describe it in words - w/o pictures.

Paul Lee wrote...

Do you know what a "chine" is?

In the case of a tire it's a circumferential
flared-up ridge just outside the wheel hub
on both sides. Kind of like you pinched up a wall
around the sidewall of the wheel on each side. You
can see 'em on some Lear nosewheels. Wouldn't
be on 'em holding down gravel any better than
a standard nosewheel.

In other cases you might have heard them called
"strakes" g

Dave 'mushroom' Hyde

I wrote...

Wouldn't be on 'em holding down gravel...

Uh, that's "Wouldn't BET on 'em holding down gravel..."

Dave 'odds' Hyde

Paul Lee wrote:

Colibri wrote in message ...

Do you know what a chine is when it's part of a tire sidewall? Couldn't
find a picture online, sorry.


That's begging the question. Never heard off a "chine" in any case.

There is such a thing as trying to describe it in words - w/o pictures.

A projecting, vane-like shape.
Those thin edges along the forward fuselage sides on an SR-71.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/sr-71-front.jpg

This Lear appears to have the nose tire I'm referring to!
http://www.aerialvideo.com/photogall...tnosemount.jpg
The chines act like fenders.