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| Subject: | Re: bungee replacement |
oh yeah those spacers. Mine failed early on, but no gear collapse...I'm
running pieces of tire in there now. That's held up well but I only have
220 hours on it. I'm trying to figure out how your gear collapsed
without the clamp failing too...I can easily understand it being floppy
and sweeping back some on landing but how did it collapse? I guess once
it sweeps a ways it goes on and fails the clamp too? That's the bent
bolts you mentioned?
Thanks a lot, good info. I'll go look at mine closer now
Joe
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| Subject: | Re: bungee replacement |
Prior to the aforementioned takeoff, I had landed on the short field. I was probably
just at gross weight and dropped it in solid... not a bad landing but
not a greaser either. As best as I can tell, the top spacer sheared completely
into 2 pieces at landing. I didn't pre-flight (my-bad) but just tookoff.
As there was slop in the clamp assembly, as I went across the grass, the jolting
caused the front of the aluminum bracket to break just as I lifted off. The
back of the bracket held on but the gear tilted back about 20 degrees. As I
remember that takeoff, I shiver. What if it had broken 1 second earlier, I was
past the point of no return and headed over a cliff. whew. Again... glory
be to God.
I didn't tell my passenger how bad it was but just headed to an airport with more
runway. As I turned downwind, I handed her a fire-extinguisher and told her
to pray.
I explained above how I landed her: a lot of throttle work and prayer. the gear
folded back but stayed in the slot that runs beneath the fuselage. Not a scratch
on the plane. I tell you the truth. Not a single scratch. How can that
be?
It hurts to look, but I'll post the picture again.
fly safe.
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Ernest Jessee
N4931M
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| Subject: | Re: bungee replacement |
Thanks for sharing that, and I'll bet there are several on this forum that feel
the same way.
--- On Wed, 3/23/11, ejessee <eejessee@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: ejessee <eejessee@us.ibm.com>
> Subject: Zenith701801-List: Re: bungee replacement
> To: zenith701801-list@matronics.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 8:55 AM
> --> Zenith701801-List message
> posted by: "ejessee" <eejessee@us.ibm.com>
>
> Prior to the aforementioned takeoff, I had landed on
> the short field. I was probably just at gross weight
> and dropped it in solid... not a bad landing but not a
> greaser either. As best as I can tell, the top spacer
> sheared completely into 2 pieces at landing. I didn't
> pre-flight (my-bad) but just tookoff.As
> there was slop in the clamp assembly, as I went across the
> grass, the jolting caused the front of the aluminum bracket
> to break just as I lifted off. The back of the bracket held
> on but the gear tilted back about 20
> degrees.As I remember that takeoff, I
> shiver. What if it had broken 1 second earlier, I was past
> the point of no return and headed over a cliff.
> whew. Again... glory be to God.
>
> I didn't tell my passenger how bad it was but just headed
> to an airport with more runway. As I turned downwind,
> I handed her a fire-extinguisher and told her to pray.
>
>
> I explained above how I landed her: a lot of throttle
> work and prayer. the gear folded back but stayed in
> the slot that runs beneath the fuselage. Not a scratch
> on the plane.I tell you the truth.
> Not a single scratch. How can that be?
>
> It hurts to look, but I'll post the picture again.
>
> fly safe.
>
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> Ernest Jessee
> N4931M
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