Crosswind landings

[Amir Neshati]

Home depot sells castering wheels....they have ball bearings too for smoth 
rotation
Very rugged too, should stand cross wind landings with wind speeds up to 200 
MPH.

Since Wayne is an open minded modeler, may be we can ask him to try it for 
us and let us
know. I'll even send him different size castering wheels free.

I feel better now that I contributed something,

Amir
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nat Penton" <natpenton at centurytel.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Crosswind landings


>I had castering gear, that developed due to the Florida sand, on an old 
>Atlas taildragger. Best airplane I have ever flown as to takeoffs and 
>landings. I would do it on every airplane if I knew how to engineer it. Nat
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Richards" <bob at toprudder.com>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Crosswind landings
>
>
>> You need castering wheels. Land in a crab, like a
>> Helio Courier. :-)
>>
>> --- patterndude at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> I'm leaving for Muncie in the a.m. and looking at a
>>> storm roll in out my work window.  Wind is wipping
>>> up at about 40 mph crosswind.  These are the same
>>> conditions faced at the Nats 2 years ago.  So I was
>>> wondering about what I'd do if it happened again.
>>> Although flying was nearly impossible, landing most
>>> definitely was.  This was because a 40 mph crosswind
>>> can not be compensated for as the plane slows.
>>> However, with magical planning skills I could
>>> imagine making my landing approach at a 45 degree
>>> angle to the runway.  As the plane slows it will
>>> track the shape of a parabola layed down in a
>>> horizontal plane.  If I time the power right the
>>> plane will stop flying in the crosswind direction
>>> when it is over the runway and I can touch down.
>>> However the plane will be at least 45 degrees
>>> crabbed at touchdown, (probably more).
>>>
>>> If I suck up the gear (retracts) and side slide the
>>> plane on the center stripe to a halt, is that a 10?
>>>
>>> --Lance
>>>
>>> --
>>> District 6 AVP
>>> www.aeroslave.com
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