X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop-Diagnostic: (direct reply)\eX-PolluStop-Score: 0.00\eX-PolluStop: Scanned with Niversoft PolluStop 2.1 RC1, http://www.niversoft.com/pollustop Return-Path: Received: from tomcat.al.noaa.gov ([140.172.240.2] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTP id 867995 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:31:13 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=140.172.240.2; envelope-from=bdube@al.noaa.gov Received: from mungo.al.noaa.gov (mungo.al.noaa.gov [140.172.241.126]) by tomcat.al.noaa.gov (8.12.11/8.12.0) with ESMTP id j3DKUS1I001884 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:30:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050413141842.033ddc20@mailsrvr.al.noaa.gov> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:30:13 -0600 To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" From: Bill Dube Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Fw: Gear-UP Landings - problem solved...? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" A pal attempted to use this exact unit on a BattleBot. It wouldn't take pavement at all. It barfed its bearings and then the ball vanished.

A replaceable fiberglass skid would be a better solution.

If you are set on something that rolls, perhaps you could use one of the wheels we use for wheelie bars on our drag vehciles. Better yet, the folks that drag race snowmobiles have special wheels they put on the skis.