<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">$100 ?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">$150 ?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">$175 ?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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. <br>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Radomes and Specialty Apertures<br>
Technical Staff Composites Engineering<br>
Raytheon</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Concur on the landing gear. Big hole was left
when ES stopped producing gears.<br>
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Jon Lowe<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Mark Atwood <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com><br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:02 AM<br>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] since the list is slooooooow...<br>
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Control Horns, Carbon landing gear, wing and stab adjusters (unless we're<br>
still going to be able to get the gator stuff).<br>
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On 10/21/08 9:00 PM, "JShulman" <jshulman@cfl.rr.com> wrote:<br>
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> How about this for all you pilots sitting at home not knowing what
to<br>
> practice.<br>
> <br>
> Shulman Aviation is developing a pattern line of products. We will
have an F3A<br>
> outrunner and controller in a few months, along with<br>
> some parts for planes. We will also have our 4 ARF designs.<br>
> <br>
> My question is... what else do we need to make life easier, or at
the least,<br>
> to keep flying our planes? Let me know and we'll see<br>
> what we can do.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> Jason<br>
> www.jasonshulman.com<br>
> www.shulmanaviation.com<br>
> www.composite-arf.com<br>
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