Bob Kelly
Well-Known Member
Howdy all !
Well, after aprox.3 years of fighting with the pusher tail dragger design I am giveing up and changeing my gyro back to a tricycle landing gear system....
Thanks to McEagle it finally dawned on me what the problem was... as McEagle said the center of gravity is way too far behind the front wheels and the machine will want to swap ends at the slightest provication ! ... which it did !
and when he said that the lights came on ! ... Ofcorse thats what the problem was !
how stupid of me to have missed that !
... well, after looking it over there is realy no way to save the design and retain the stability on the ground that i had gained with the design changes, so its back to the drawing board, I will make her a tricycle landing gear type once again, and make it solid enough so as not to slop arround like the first version of the Bumble Bee did
... at this writeing i am about 1/2 way done getting it back togather , i have the rear wheels on and am working on the front wheel now.
I am sure this will cure the Swap-ends problem i was having with the tail dragger design... and alow me to continue the flight practice !
cheers !
c'Ya !
Bob.....
Well, after aprox.3 years of fighting with the pusher tail dragger design I am giveing up and changeing my gyro back to a tricycle landing gear system....
Thanks to McEagle it finally dawned on me what the problem was... as McEagle said the center of gravity is way too far behind the front wheels and the machine will want to swap ends at the slightest provication ! ... which it did !
and when he said that the lights came on ! ... Ofcorse thats what the problem was !
how stupid of me to have missed that !
... well, after looking it over there is realy no way to save the design and retain the stability on the ground that i had gained with the design changes, so its back to the drawing board, I will make her a tricycle landing gear type once again, and make it solid enough so as not to slop arround like the first version of the Bumble Bee did
... at this writeing i am about 1/2 way done getting it back togather , i have the rear wheels on and am working on the front wheel now.
I am sure this will cure the Swap-ends problem i was having with the tail dragger design... and alow me to continue the flight practice !
cheers !
c'Ya !
Bob.....
