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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jul 18, 2006
Description:
Coloured version of NLA-1a. A hint of things to come?
Date Taken:
Jul 18, 2006
Place Taken:
Picton, Ontario
Owner:
Dave King
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Dave Lima - Jul 18,2006
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I'm surprised you are showing this top secret information, love the design, just don't know about the retractable outriggers, why not just incorporate the outer wheels into the sponson without having any retraction at all. Where's my BRS going to fit???
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Don Maxwell - Jul 18,2006
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That looks cool. (But it's going to need a hefty spar in the sponsons and a good, stiff boom tube or other tail section strength.)
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Kenneth Leonard - Jul 18,2006
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No fair teasing guys. Is it just another fantasy or is someone building it? Don, the boom tube isn't needed if you design the strength into the composite. If it's a sprung single/central wheel, won't it have to stick out pretty far for it to compress? And wouldn't that still make a wheels down landing in the water a crash?
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John Robert Dunlop - Jul 18,2006
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Yes it is a fantasy Ken!<br />The concept of the central wheel evolved from the ease with which a Searey will alight on grass wheels up. We thought that the centre wheel could be slightly larger in diameter than the current wheels and protrude only three or four inches. A fairing hinged several feet ahead of the wheel and attached to the centre wheel axle housing such that it would move vertically with the wheel itself on a sprung shock system would present a streamlined section to the water. The fairing would also serve as a replaceable rub strip for beachings.<br /><br />The outriggers might also be fixed and fairerd into the aft edge of the sponsons. This concept also uses a fixed faired tail wheel for steering when the aircraft is sitting in a three point attitude (the outriggers barely touching..) As the design continues the tail dragger concept but uses a much larger single central wheel to carry most of the aircraft's weight, it might actualy work reasonably well on the beach..
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