"How much will the Diehl gear legs deflect?" I really am not trying to be a smart ass here but it depends on how bad your landing is. In my particular case it was quite a lot. On my first first flight my G meter recorded 2.4 during the "return to earth" portion of this flight. If you would have asked me I would have said at least 5. It was so much that the filler I used to streamline the gear legs all cracked and some of it broke off. This has now been cleaned off, glassed in very light silk weave and lightly sanded with no filler what-so-ever.
Because of this landing I have opened up the bottom of my wing so that I can now inspect my landing gear bracket and its attachment to both the spar and the leg. I now have a removable fairing for the inside and one for the outside of this opening with built in fillets to smooth the airflow around the intersection of the leg and the bottom of the wing. I don't really think I will need them for my second first flight but if I do I can easily remove them to inspect this area. The inside fairing fits right up against the gear leg since it can't flex in that direction. I gave the outside fairing a 1/8" clearance for flexing. This should be much more than enough because the flexing is going to increase as you get further from the attachment bracket. I have the standard Diehl main gear and my own nose leg design with his yoke assembly. There was no apparent damage to the bottom of my stub wings but I bet they flexed 4-5 inches. I wasn't sure before but I now have quite an appreciation for the durability of this gear. From the spar bracket to the axle no damage at all. Hope this helps, Stephen Teate Paradise, Texas The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you should delete this message. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized, and any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
