[NSRCA-discussion] CF gear needs and something to talk about

[Earl Haury]

FWIW - ZN offer a very nice CF gear for 129 Euros ($165 USD). They are swept, relatively light @ 100 g / pr, and appear to have long for E and shorter for G. 

Earl
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  From: Gray E Fowler 
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  Interesting about the need for landing gear. Lance and I from AeroSlave have conteplated making gear. Personnally I have an ES and we chose not design and fab CF gear because the ES was a good price, good weight.  I was unaware the ES has ceased making the gear. If I had to guess ES stopped due to not enough money to be made, probably due to the people wanting replacements due to breaking or just not enough profit margin at $75. 
  I have looked at many different types of CF gear and the one thing they all had in common was some type of design flaw. These various flaws were a result of composite design ignorance or, a tough choice that had to be made to keep fab costs low.  So the question is...how much would a pattern dude pay for a lightweight CF landing gear that would never break under normal use? It can be done, but is the market there? 

  $100 ? 
  $150 ? 
  $175 ? 

  I would guess that a majority will choke on a $100 cost, and obviously, a $75 price tag (ES) is not sustainable as a business. 




  Gray Fowler
  Senior Principal Chemical Engineer
  Radomes and Specialty Apertures
  Technical Staff Composites Engineering
  Raytheon 


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  Concur on the landing gear.  Big hole was left when ES stopped producing gears.

  Jon Lowe

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  Control Horns, Carbon landing gear, wing and stab adjusters (unless we're
  still going to be able to get the gator stuff).


  On 10/21/08 9:00 PM, "JShulman" <jshulman at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

  > How about this for all you pilots sitting at home not knowing what to
  > practice.
  > 
  > Shulman Aviation is developing a pattern line of products. We will have an F3A
  > outrunner and controller in a few months, along with
  > some parts for planes. We will also have our 4 ARF designs.
  > 
  > My question is... what else do we need to make life easier, or at the least,
  > to keep flying our planes? Let me know and we'll see
  > what we can do.
  > 
  > Regards,
  > Jason
  > www.jasonshulman.com
  > www.shulmanaviation.com
  > www.composite-arf.com
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