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     1. 10:08 AM - Horizontal braces  (teamgrumman@aol.com)
     2. 10:53 AM - Re: Horizontal braces  (Gil Alexander)
     3. 03:06 PM - Re: Horizontal braces  (grumpyparts)
     4. 04:33 PM - Re: Horizontal braces  (923te)
 
 
 
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Time: 10:08:24 AM PST US
Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Horizontal braces
From: teamgrumman@aol.com

I found bent vertical braces in the area in contact with the stub spar that 
goes through the fuselage on a Tiger with no other noted damage to anything.
 =C2-I cannot imaging how that vertical brace can be bent unless the horiz
ontal twisted so much that it deformed the vertical braces. =C2-


Just a heads up

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Time: 10:53:06 AM PST US
From: Gil Alexander <gilalex@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: Horizontal braces


Could it be a "tail skid touch" landing that 
forced the aft fuselage up a little, and the mass 
of the horizontal resists it and causes the buckle in the vertical angles?

The damage to mine was similar to your 
description - previous owner landings though...:^)

gil A

PS  ..can we attach pictures now?


At 10:06 AM 3/12/2009, you wrote:
>I found bent vertical braces in the area in 
>contact with the stub spar that goes through the 
>fuselage on a Tiger with no other noted damage 
>to anything.  I cannot imaging how that 
>vertical brace can be bent unless the horizontal 
>twisted so much that it deformed the vertical braces. 
>
>Just a heads up


________________________________  Message 3  _____________________________________


Time: 03:06:10 PM PST US
Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Re: Horizontal braces
From: "grumpyparts" <i.r.m@btinternet.com>


Yes you can put pictures up on the  Matronics Email Lists Forum Index -> TeamGrumman-List
under the same topic name.


Read this topic online here:

http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=234381#234381


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Time: 04:33:12 PM PST US
From: "923te" <923te@att.net>
Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: Horizontal braces

Not the vertical but I saw the horizontal brace cracked.
A fellow Tiger owner on my field was pushing his Tiger into the T-hangar 
and struck the hangar with the elevator. He came and got me to see the 
damage. The right stabilizer was seperated from the fuselage about an 
inch leaving a gap at the leading edge root where the plastic root 
fillet usually is up against the fuselage. I held the right stabilizer 
at the tip and put a little forward pressure on it and heard a big pop. 
The gap was now gone. Further inspection by the A&P found the top lip of 
the spar cracked and that is where you could locate the popping sound... 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: teamgrumman@aol.com 
  To: teamgrumman-list@matronics.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:06 PM
  Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Horizontal braces


  I found bent vertical braces in the area in contact with the stub spar 
that goes through the fuselage on a Tiger with no other noted damage to 
anything.  I cannot imaging how that vertical brace can be bent unless 
the horizontal twisted so much that it deformed the vertical braces.   


  Just a heads up

 

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