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I towed the plane across rough ground and watched the stinger / tail
today. The new stinger design is a HUGE improvement over the old round,
hollow, one. This new stinger flexes significantly more than the
previous design and clearly absorbes a substantial load which the
bulkheads themselves had to previously bear the brunt of.

After nearly 20 landings on rough turf, everything appears as solid as
when first installed. At this stage I'd have to say that the
improvements in component thickness coupled with the new stinger and
additional horizontal stiffeners are a winner on the Moose. When the
new stinger design becomes available from Murphy Aircraft, I highly
encourage every Moose / Super Rebel owner to consider an upgrade
(assuming one does a significant portion of their flying on wheels that
is).

All the details are at
http://www.i1ci.com/Flying/Moose/Tail/TailUpgrade.html




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I towed the plane across rough ground and watched the stinger / tail
today. The new stinger design is a HUGE improvement over the old round,
hollow, one. This new stinger flexes significantly more than the
previous design and clearly absorbes a substantial load which the
bulkheads themselves had to previously bear the brunt of.

After nearly 20 landings on rough turf, everything appears as solid as
when first installed. At this stage I'd have to say that the
improvements in component thickness coupled with the new stinger and
additional horizontal stiffeners are a winner on the Moose. When the
new stinger design becomes available from Murphy Aircraft, I highly
encourage every Moose / Super Rebel owner to consider an upgrade
(assuming one does a significant portion of their flying on wheels that
is).

All the details are at
http://www.i1ci.com/Flying/Moose/Tail/TailUpgrade.html




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Ted:

We have ordered the "BEEF UP" group of parts for our moose from MAM.
Nancy says that the new stinger (LG-066) and the (STEEL) FUS-438 has not
been approved yet for production.
We can wait for the stinger for a while, but will need the 438 to install
with the new parts.
Is the new steel 438 a big improvement from the old one? ? ?
Do you think that the old 438 will last with the new stinger? ? ?
We will be working full time on our moose this month and wanted to get it
ALL put together.

Nancy has said there is a lot of interest in these parts, so if anyone is
thinking of doing this retrofit they better get their ordres in NOW as I
think MAM will be running out of parts soon.
The more orders MAM gets for this group of parts the sooner they will
start making the new stingers.

Glad to hear that the beef up looks like it will help in the long run as a
lot of our flying will be into onimproved landing sites. Farm fields and
dirt roads.

Thanks for you insite and installing these MODS to help prove them out.

Steve H
Moose 213


Ted Waltman <tedwaltman@i1ci.com> wrote:
I towed the plane across rough ground and watched the stinger / tail
today. The new stinger design is a HUGE improvement over the old round,
hollow, one. This new stinger flexes significantly more than the
previous design and clearly absorbes a substantial load which the
bulkheads themselves had to previously bear the brunt of.

After nearly 20 landings on rough turf, everything appears as solid as
when first installed. At this stage I'd have to say that the
improvements in component thickness coupled with the new stinger and
additional horizontal stiffeners are a winner on the Moose. When the
new stinger design becomes available from Murphy Aircraft, I highly
encourage every Moose / Super Rebel owner to consider an upgrade
(assuming one does a significant portion of their flying on wheels that
is).

All the details are at
http://www.i1ci.com/Flying/Moose/Tail/TailUpgrade.html




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