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next up for them... finding rudders with stronger tops for when they flip them......
Apparently you lost interest and buried the headline in the review of the CC19 NTSB Accident reports. Could it be because thus far the NTSB reports underscores the point I was trying to make in all the dialog above? So here is the summary of the 6 reported XCub NTSB accidents. As we know there were probably more not reported to NTSB.
Bottom line there were 6 NTSB reports. One was fuel exhaustion and 5 were ground loops. Of the 5 ground loops, 2 involve partial right main gear collapse. There were no total gear collapses reported. There were no reports of prop or engine damage. This profile is entirely different than the reports involving the cub legacy gear equipped FX-3 aircraft where collapse of the legacy cub gear was the rule, not the exception.
So experience to date completely supports the assertions made by Brad Damm at CubCrafters in 2017 and the point I have been trying to make in this thread. Legacy gear cub tend to totally collapse when stressed beyond normal operating limits. So far XCub aircraft experience partial gear collapse which appears to spare the $12,500 Hartzell composite prop and save the engine from a teardown as well as other aircraft damage associated with total gear collapse.
N97LL - Right ground loop, left wing damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N70DD - Fuel exhaustion
N82XX - Left Ground loop, right wing damage, right main gear collapse, no mention of engine/prop damage
N711XC - Left Ground loop, right wing and aileron damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N53XC - Right Ground loop, left wing and aileron damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N533AL - Left Ground loop, right aileron and empennage damage, right main gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
You'll have to explain that in more detail. Does pushing the stick forward cause the tail to hit softer or harder? Did your instructor also tell you to get your heavy feet off the brakes?My first instructor told me to push the stick forward once you know you're going to flip. "Then you only have to rebuild the vertical, not the whole tail". First lesson. I wonder how many instructors tell the truth to people who've only seen success.
Apparently you lost interest and buried the headline in the review of the CC19 NTSB Accident reports. Could it be because thus far the NTSB reports underscores the point I was trying to make in all the dialog above? So here is the summary of the 6 reported XCub NTSB accidents. As we know there were probably more not reported to NTSB.
Bottom line there were 6 NTSB reports. One was fuel exhaustion and 5 were ground loops. Of the 5 ground loops, 2 involve partial right main gear collapse. There were no total gear collapses reported. There were no reports of prop or engine damage. This profile is entirely different than the reports involving the cub legacy gear equipped FX-3 aircraft where collapse of the legacy cub gear was the rule, not the exception.
So experience to date completely supports the assertions made by Brad Damm at CubCrafters in 2017 and the point I have been trying to make in this thread. Legacy gear cub tend to totally collapse when stressed beyond normal operating limits. So far XCub aircraft experience partial gear collapse which appears to spare the $12,500 Hartzell composite prop and save the engine from a teardown as well as other aircraft damage associated with total gear collapse.
N97LL - Right ground loop, left wing damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N70DD - Fuel exhaustion
N82XX - Left Ground loop, right wing damage, right main gear collapse, no mention of engine/prop damage
N711XC - Left Ground loop, right wing and aileron damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N53XC - Right Ground loop, left wing and aileron damage, no gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
N533AL - Left Ground loop, right aileron and empennage damage, right main gear collapse, no engine/prop damage
"Those CC airplanes sound like pieces of sheet. The data suggests they turn average pilots into Fuktards. Why would a guy buy one?"
Well I whish I would have known this before spending 3 years to build a plane that flies incredible and comes with the HD 3X3 death gear.
i had a 1996 dodge 3/4 ton pickup that had the death wobble, i know where your coming from. you were along for the ride until you got stopped.
Needed new tires.i had a 1996 dodge 3/4 ton pickup that had the death wobble, i know where your coming from. you were along for the ride until you got stopped.
The main difference between a Dodge pickup and a Jehovahs Witness is that you can eventually get the door shut on a Jehovahs Witness;-)i had a 1996 dodge 3/4 ton pickup that had the death wobble, i know where your coming from. you were along for the ride until you got stopped.
Needed new tires.
Common problem on those Dodges especially with a bale bed.
Had the same problem put new parts in the front end and took them out in 50 miles .finally one of my pilots told me they fought that for a couple years with one of their pickups till they changed tires so we just swap back and front and it took care of the problem.
For some reason it shatters all the steel wire in them and they have no rigidity.
It's really a wild ride a pulling a trailer when that happens.
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"Those CC airplanes sound like pieces of sheet. The data suggests they turn average pilots into Fuktards. Why would a guy buy one?"
Well I whish I would have known this before spending 3 years to build a plane (EX-2) that flies incredible and comes with the HD 3X3 death gear.
And here I just bolted a Rancho Steering Stabilizer on and drove mine (96-3/4T, 4x4 EC w/12 Valve Cummins & 5 speed +a two-speed OD) another 200,000 miles before I sold it to a guy that last I knew had it at over 450K miles.
Did it have a bale bed on it? Ive got 3 of them only one that did it was the one with the bale bed on it.And here I just bolted a Rancho Steering Stabilizer on and drove mine (96-3/4T, 4x4 EC w/12 Valve Cummins & 5 speed +a two-speed OD) another 200,000 miles before I sold it to a guy that last I knew had it at over 450K miles.
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Water kills. Every single human being in the entire history of mankind, that EVER took a drink of water, has died. Therefore water is deadly.
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Needed new tires.
Common problem on those Dodges especially with a bale bed.
Had the same problem put new parts in the front end and took them out in 50 miles .finally one of my pilots told me they fought that for a couple years with one of their pickups till they changed tires so we just swap back and front and it took care of the problem.
For some reason it shatters all the steel wire in them and they have no rigidity.
It's really a wild ride a pulling a trailer when that happens.
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Loved the engine,Hated the truck.
If the plane is sliding along on its back with a broken vertical, you want the TE of the elevators to have positive AOA.