[NSRCA-discussion] CF gear needs and something to talk about
Earl Haury
ejhaury at comcast.net
Wed Oct 22 12:29:15 AKDT 2008
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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Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] CF gear needs and something to talk about
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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