vegas mossie

:stupid:

...if you hit it just right, it will rip your landing gear right out of the plane. I was on final approach, and came up just a couple of inches short on the runway. The mains hit that little lip between the runway and the dirt. Tore them completley out of the plane. Balsa, plywood reinforer, smashed the bomb drop.
The front wheel folded all the way back to the fuse like it was a retract or something. So far I have found 4 additional cracks in the fuse, nowhere near the landing gear. The firewall is loose, and one of the motor mount screws is missing. Oh well, nothing a little ca, epoxy, plywood, balsa, ultracote, and about 2 weeks of free time won't fix. Later, Loren

tmproff

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I have done exactly that same thing with my Sig Somethin Extra. IT was a spectacular crash....the landing was going to be perfect.......(Didn't know about the lip) and then all of a sudden the nose went straight up in the air with a cloud of splinters below it.......The plane came down hard, split the fuse in 2, and damaged the wings a bit.....I missed the runway by less than a foot........

mrbonk

I've done something 'sorta' similar with my Dazzler (the first one). Not long after I got it, I was doing full power touch-n-go's on our strip. One the last one, I held it on the ground and just drove it down the strip at full noise on the front wheels.......until I hit a 'hump' that I didn't know about, towards the end of the strip. It drove the wheels up into the wings (tyre marks under both wings), obviously bent the gear badly, broke the prop, stopped the engine and shot the plane up at about a 45 degree angle. It stalled, then just sort of flopped down on it's belly and bent gear. Didn't actually *break* anything other than the prop How lucky is that?! I took it back to the pits, went to work on the gear with my pliers, changed the prop and took to the air again