Re: [Titanaircraft] Re: tail wheel

Guy,

Thanks for telling us/me about this. As a person with an engineering
bent (software engineer), I'm always interested in the why of things,
especially when alternative solutions could have severe consequences.

Hugh Sontag

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>The reason I asked was because the brackets were designed to not
>crush the tube. I made the brackets in a V shape so they would be
>tangent to the tube and attached with enough rivets to hold them in
>place, but to shear off if overloaded. I was concerned with possible
>impacts that could deform the tube enough to prevent the stabilator
>control horn from moving through its full range.
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>Now I read that it has happened- a tail boom was deformed by a tail
>wheel bracket enough to limit pitch control. Many times I see Titans
>at airports. Sometimes the tail wheel brackets are attached with
>bolts or completely replaced with a newly designed bracket.
>Sometimes the new bracket is attached to the bottom of the boom
>tube. If the owner or pilot is around, I talk to them about the
>reason it was designed the way it was and I encourage the individual
>to install the original brackets with the original number of steel
>rivets.
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>If a tail wheel bracket is attached to the bottom of the boom tube
>instead of tangent and an unusually hard tail strike occurs, the
>boom tube will deform and the pitch control range is likely to be
>severely limited. Please consider this before modifying the tail
>wheel brackets.
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>If the aircraft was purchased used, maybe it would be a good idea to
>look at the manual, make sure the original brackets are installed
>and make sure they are attached with 5 steel rivets on each side.
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>By the way Richie, good reactions in a bad situation saved your
>neck. Good job!
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> -- Guy
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>--- On Sat, 9/5/09, aero_richie
><<mailto:littlegrandhome%40yahoo.com>littlegrandhome@yahoo.com>
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>From: aero_richie
><<mailto:littlegrandhome%40yahoo.com>littlegrandhome@yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Titanaircraft] Re: tail wheel
>To: <mailto:Titanaircraft%40yahoogroups.com>Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 8:02 PM
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>The tailwheel assembly appears to be the factory version that
>everyone is referring to. And yessssss, you can rest assured that
>control movements are now checked very thouroughly before leaving
>terra firma. I've always done a very thorough preflight when I first
>take to flight for the day, but I was lax on my intermediate stops
>until this incident. It is as they always say, "Live and Learn!".
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>Richie and "Aunt Sally"
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>P.S. Come to think of it, who are "They".
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