Designing a gear, and am looking for opinions on this paragraph. Do I need to build with 9" at full stuff, flat tires, or just "clearance" at full stuff, flat tires? I'm interpreting as just "clearance" to which I'll add a few inches to be safe.
(a) Ground clearance. There must be aclearance of at least seven inches (foreach airplane with nose wheel landinggear) or nine inches (for each airplanewith tail wheel landing gear) betweeneach propeller and the ground with thelanding gear statically deflected and inthe level, normal takeoff, or taxing attitude, whichever is most critical. Inaddition, for each airplane with conventional landing gear struts usingfluid or mechanical means for absorbing landing shocks, there must be positive clearance between the propellerand the ground in the level takeoff attitude with the critical tire completelydeflated and the corresponding landinggear strut bottomed. Positive clearance for airplanes using leaf springstruts is shown with a deflection corresponding to 1.5g
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(a) Ground clearance. There must be aclearance of at least seven inches (foreach airplane with nose wheel landinggear) or nine inches (for each airplanewith tail wheel landing gear) betweeneach propeller and the ground with thelanding gear statically deflected and inthe level, normal takeoff, or taxing attitude, whichever is most critical. Inaddition, for each airplane with conventional landing gear struts usingfluid or mechanical means for absorbing landing shocks, there must be positive clearance between the propellerand the ground in the level takeoff attitude with the critical tire completelydeflated and the corresponding landinggear strut bottomed. Positive clearance for airplanes using leaf springstruts is shown with a deflection corresponding to 1.5g
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