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1. 12:32 PM - flat tire vs. wheel fairing (tom sargent)
2. 02:15 PM - Re: flat tire vs. wheel fairing (RICHARD MILLER)
3. 05:51 PM - Re: flat tire vs. wheel fairing (Paul Rice)
4. 09:10 PM - Re: flat tire vs. wheel fairing (Sam Buchanan)
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| Subject: | flat tire vs. wheel fairing |
I don't have the wheel fairings on my 6A yet. I just dragged the
fuselage out of the garage around back to make room to clean the wings
for painting. It must of picked up a thorn (arizona is full of
needle-like things) because the right main tire now seems to have a leak.
It occurs to me that if the wheel fairing were installed, the tires
stick out a 1/2" or 1" below the fairing. An even partially flat tire
would quickly bring the weight of the plane down on the wheel fairing.
I'm guessing the fairing would be pretty well destroyed in that event.
Can any one comment on this? Should I cut the fairings back further?
Seems like a pretty stiff penalty for letting a tire go flat.
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Tom Sargent, RV-6A
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| Subject: | Re: flat tire vs. wheel fairing |
landing with a flat will do a hell of a lot more damage then just the fairing.
can you say ground loop. while tires with leaks go dead flat in the hanger they
don,t go dead flat in the air since there is no compression on the tire in flight.
so normally you end up with a low pressure tire at the end of the flight.and
can control it.
rick
--- On Fri, 11/28/08, tom sargent <sarg314@comcast.net> wrote:
> From: tom sargent <sarg314@comcast.net>
> Subject: RV-List: flat tire vs. wheel fairing
> To: rv-list@matronics.com
> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 12:28 PM
> <sarg314@comcast.net>
>
> I don't have the wheel fairings on my 6A yet. I just
> dragged the fuselage out of the garage around back to make
> room to clean the wings for painting. It must of picked up
> a thorn (arizona is full of needle-like things) because the
> right main tire now seems to have a leak.
>
> It occurs to me that if the wheel fairing were installed,
> the tires stick out a 1/2" or 1" below the
> fairing. An even partially flat tire would quickly bring
> the weight of the plane down on the wheel fairing. I'm
> guessing the fairing would be pretty well destroyed in that
> event. Can any one comment on this? Should I cut the
> fairings back further?
>
> Seems like a pretty stiff penalty for letting a tire go
> flat.
> --
> Tom Sargent, RV-6A
>
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| Subject: | flat tire vs. wheel fairing |
Hey Tom=2C
>From experience=2C I can tell you that probably the only thing that would h
appen if you tire went flat in the hanger is that the 4 screw holes that at
tach the front and rear halfs to the fair bracket would become elongated=2C
the rest fo the fairing would be fine. When it happened to me=2C only the
rear 2 holes got damaged=2C no biggy.
Paul Rice RV8> Date: Fri=2C 28 Nov 2008 14:13:18 -0800> From: rickpegser@ya
hoo.com> Subject: Re: RV-List: flat tire vs. wheel fairing> To: rv-list@mat
oo.com>> > landing with a flat will do a hell of a lot more damage then jus
t the fairing. can you say ground loop. while tires with leaks go dead flat
in the hanger they don=2Ct go dead flat in the air since there is no compr
ession on the tire in flight. so normally you end up with a low pressure ti
re at the end of the flight.and can control it.> > rick> > > --- On Fri=2C
11/28/08=2C tom sargent <sarg314@comcast.net> wrote:> > > From: tom sargent
<sarg314@comcast.net>> > Subject: RV-List: flat tire vs. wheel fairing> >
> > I don't have the wheel fairings on my 6A yet. I just> > dragged the fu
selage out of the garage around back to make> > room to clean the wings for
painting. It must of picked up> > a thorn (arizona is full of needle-like
things) because the> > right main tire now seems to have a leak.> > > > It
occurs to me that if the wheel fairing were installed=2C> > the tires stick
out a 1/2" or 1" below the> > fairing. An even partially flat tire would q
uickly bring> > the weight of the plane down on the wheel fairing. I'm> > g
uessing the fairing would be pretty well destroyed in that> > event. Can an
y one comment on this? Should I cut the> > fairings back further?> > > > Se
ems like a pretty stiff penalty for letting a tire go> > flat.> > --> > Tom
======================> > >
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| Subject: | Re: flat tire vs. wheel fairing |
RICHARD MILLER wrote:
>
> landing with a flat will do a hell of a lot more damage then just the
> fairing. can you say ground loop. while tires with leaks go dead flat
> in the hanger they don,t go dead flat in the air since there is no
> compression on the tire in flight. so normally you end up with a low
> pressure tire at the end of the flight.and can control it.
>
> rick
In our local group we have seen two instances of RV-6A nose wheel tires
either going flat enroute or immediately on touchdown, hard to know
which. In both cases the tires could be pumped up enough to taxi the
plane back to the hangar.
The RV nose gear tubes are strange animals and seem to go flat with no
warning and sometimes for hard to determine reasons. Nose rollers need
to be sure they carry a spare tube in the plane because the Lamb tube is
hard to find.
Sam Buchanan
http://thervjournal.com
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