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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Jim Treace on April 04, 2011, 10:37:11 AM
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This is a revisit of a thread started last September. Since then I have been working on my Bellanca project (1969 Jim Young's plans)...a trike gear set up. I mostly fly off a stooge and this is my first trike. So, reading the old post I got a kind of idea from Randy Ryan's trike stooge set up. I permanently secured a stooge hook mid line under fuselage aft of nose. This would allow a multi strand wire to be clipped to the hook that would extend aft of the LG and at end of wire a small loop that would engage the stooge pull pin. I use the standard stooge supplied by Brodak. It's a small profile mounted to wood board, secured to ground, would sit under the plane. See photos. I show the photo of Smoothie on stooge just for reference of the stooge device I use. The underside of the Bellanca shows a colored cord to simulate the wire and a loop around a balsa stick to simulate the point where it would engage the stooge pin.
So, big question....will this work?
Jim
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Hey Jim,
It should work. The only suggestion is that you check the wire from time to time.
I took some old lead out wire and did about the same thing on my Flite Streak, under the tail. The wire would dangle in the breeze behind the plane.
I thought you had a group of guys around Jacksonville?
And you Bellanca looks great !!!
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might the wire dangling from under the fuse tend to beat up the fuse some?? or did I read it wrong???
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Jim,
A stooge with two vertical arms that hold the stab in place would work very well and not require adding anything to the plane. I think I posted a pic of mine some time back. It only cost a couple of bucks to build (some plywood, a dowl to cut for the arms, eyelets and a pin to lock it in place), drill some holes in the plywood base and pin to hold down.
James
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I like it Jim, I think it'll work just fine, the only reservation I have it the engine trying to yaw the airplane while its on the stooge, let us know how that works out. I think my future trikes will have sort of a reverse arresting hook that is spring-loaded in the up position so that when its release it "retracts" and doesn't beat up the fuse.
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Good input. Maybe instead of a multi strand wire (cable), I'll use a solid wire more securely fixed to the fuselage hook. It would be less prone to swing around. Rather just lay out straight...maybe?
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Good input. Maybe instead of a multi strand wire (cable), I'll use a solid wire more securely fixed to the fuselage hook. It would be less prone to swing around. Rather just lay out straight...maybe?
Or maybe a piece of nylon string, check the loops often for fraying.