A few words on brake performance and taxi testing.
Adam makes an excellent point about brake performance and monitoring brake heat. In every instance where I have seen the nylon brake lines fail, they have always been inside tightly fitted wheel fairings. I have never seen a heat failure on
hi Zach
Any chance of info on your camera you managed to video your brake fire
please???
The video was great - but sorry about the fire, but could have been disastrous
!!
Thanks in advance
Phil
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On 7/30/2024 9:11 AM, Mark Langford wrote:
My point is that high speed taxi testing has a very useful purpose,
and may save your newly minted plane from untimely destruction before
you ever get to experience the joy of flying it.
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My current "nose dragger" (tricycle gear) factory built plane has a
castering nosewheel without any steering linkages, so the Only way to steer
it is by dragging a brake, right brake: right turn, left brake: left turn.
On a long taxi straight away on a taxiway pitched to one side for drainage
ther
I guess I'll throw in my 2 cents worth on this. When I was getting
ready to fly N56ML for the first time, I did a LOT of high speed taxi
tests at a nearby airport with a 6500' runway, 100' wide, KMDQ. I
trailered the plane there from home and kept it under a "plane-port"
that was only $70 a
I think the big takeaways from this discussion are that testing is useful,
but one must understand the limitations and failure modes of the system
which can sometimes only be determined though testing. In the large
airplane world we have numbers for brake cooling time after an aborted
takeoff or
On 7/29/2024 4:52 PM, Samuel Ajayi via KRnet wrote:
There is nothing wrong with "high speed taxi test".
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I for one do not recommend long hours of high speed taxi testing on any
airplane, new or one with 1000 hour of air frame time. I con
I am at that stage of high speed taxi testing. I thought I had my brakes
corrected from the insufficient performance during my first taxis. I went as
far as buying new Matco cylinders and installing those. Went for taxi test
yesterday and the brakes are still out of whack. I have determined the
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