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 relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTP id 868266 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:46:27 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.165; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.75]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540C537225B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.75]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00503-02-55 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-85-235.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.85.235]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE90371B96 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <425DCB39.6050500@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:45:29 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Gear-UP Landings - problem solved...? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0515-1, 04/12/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net So with this roller, how you gonna' park your airplane? Tie it down while you refuel or take a leak? Jack Beale wrote: > J, > > Because it will roll... instead of self-destruct...! > > Jack Beale > jack.beale@att.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* jesse farr > *To:* Rotary motors in aircraft > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:29 PM > *Subject:* [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Gear-UP Landings - problem solved...? > > Why the nylon ball, why not just a nice nylon/teflon block at the > contact point amd don't worry too much about the scrape ? > > jofarr, soddy tn > > ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Jack Beale > > > What I'm suggesting is a Nylon ball, about 2" in diameter. It > would be mounted on the nose of the Cozy in place of the > "hockey-puck". Should the gear fail (/or, fail to be lowered/) > the Nylon ball would allow the nose to "roll" rather than "scrape" > down the runway until the A/C could be stopped. >