[Titanaircraft] Re: Pushing/moving Tornado in-and-out

Thanks all for your ideas! sure I got many good ones so I can start working on this winter.
Thanks again for the help,
Rob.

--- In Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com, "smccor6487" <SMccor6487@...> wrote:
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> --- In Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com, "De Villiers Visser" <div@> wrote:
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> > Hi Rob,
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> > go to you tube type in titan tornado look for the one that says springflying there is a titan toter. it is simple it is a electric cylinder that rases and lowers a box that catches the tail wheel nose wheel has socks with lead shot to keep nose down.works great.
> Scottie
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> > Look at my "tail stand" in my "Div" folder in the photo section. Photo
> > no.78.
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> > You just need to install large inflatable tyres and have them inflated soft
> > to ride
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> > over the gravel.
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> > I push/pull on the prop at the hub with left hand and the right hand I steer
> > by
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> > the top of the strake where it meets the vertical fin. This is on concrete,
> > but
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> > I think the large tyres will be ok on gravel.
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> > Div
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> > From: Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com]
> > On Behalf Of Jim Covington
> > Sent: 10 November 2009 07:51 PM
> > To: Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Titanaircraft] Pushing/moving Tornado in-and-out
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> > I've always pushed backwards by pressing down with one hand at the end
> > of the nose cone, about 6" back from the tip until the tailwheel lifts
> > and then I maneuver it on two wheels.
> >
> > To push forwards, I lift by the top of the rudder until the nosewheel
> > contacts and use it to steer the nosewheel as I push forward.
> >
> > sunzalito wrote:
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> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have my Tornado based on a grass strip, the hangar floor is not
> > > finished, only gravel, so it is very difficult to maneuver the plane
> > > moving/pushing it in and out of the Hangar.
> > > Any jigs or ideas how to move it easier over gravel?
> > > Can people push it from the nose cone or other areas?
> > > That's another concern, try not to push/pull at problematic places.
> > >
> > > I thought about design/make some sort of a wheel-stand in the tail..
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rob.
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