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Hello Rebel builders.
Just started getting your groups e-mails. I have a flying Rebel,O-235
powered, on the bungee gear. I have had to do some repairs on the gear but
it
was a problem I have to blame on my construction and not on the gear. The
problem had to do with the spacing of the rear attach points bulkheads which
for some reason on the right side was wider than called for. My error. I
noticed some wrinkling of the skin to the rear of the aft bulkhead.
Removing
the inside corner rounds showed where I went wrong and now all is fixed.
The
aircraft has about 90 hrs. to date, flys at 95-100mph @2450rpm,pretty much
hands off after trimming. It has old style cowl, larger 8.00x6" tires.
{real
airplane tires} I think this size tire inflated to around 20#'s helps in
taking a lot of the stress away from the gear. The field where I keep it is
grass and fairly rough, so the gear has held up well. I don't have any
complaints. I have installed VG's and they seem to help in landing. I no
longer have to worry about a high sink situation, that was common with my
aircraft, on slow approaches. The VG"s have not had any noticeable effect
on
cruise speeds. Got to run before I get too long winded.
Dan Stewart{WA state]
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Hello Rebel builders.
Just started getting your groups e-mails. I have a flying Rebel,O-235
powered, on the bungee gear. I have had to do some repairs on the gear but
it
was a problem I have to blame on my construction and not on the gear. The
problem had to do with the spacing of the rear attach points bulkheads which
for some reason on the right side was wider than called for. My error. I
noticed some wrinkling of the skin to the rear of the aft bulkhead.
Removing
the inside corner rounds showed where I went wrong and now all is fixed.
The
aircraft has about 90 hrs. to date, flys at 95-100mph @2450rpm,pretty much
hands off after trimming. It has old style cowl, larger 8.00x6" tires.
{real
airplane tires} I think this size tire inflated to around 20#'s helps in
taking a lot of the stress away from the gear. The field where I keep it is
grass and fairly rough, so the gear has held up well. I don't have any
complaints. I have installed VG's and they seem to help in landing. I no
longer have to worry about a high sink situation, that was common with my
aircraft, on slow approaches. The VG"s have not had any noticeable effect
on
cruise speeds. Got to run before I get too long winded.
Dan Stewart{WA state]
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