Dave Wilshere

CARF had a new Mephisto at the UK Weston Park show. It had only had two flights leading up to arriving in the UK. The guys managed to get another 5 or 6 over the weekend. JetCat P-220Rxi powered.

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Dave Wilshere

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mauryr

What's the deal with the wheels sticking out when retracted?

bluelevel

Although it'll add a little bit of drag, I think this is actually a very good idea to have the wheels sticking out a tiny litte bit. You can store the plane easier and it won't scratch the bottom in case of a gear up landing.

Thomas

Dave Wilshere

Yes, easier to handle in car/van and protects the underside if the electric gear sticks up.

mauryr

Wont the landing gear get damaged quite badly in case of a gear up landing? The leg is usually designed to only dampen when extended: when retracted it will act as a big lever to rip the retract out of the rails, is it not so in this plane as well?

Dave Wilshere

Its not like you are going to do this every flight...it's to save an expensive re paint. CARF gear mounts are the best in the business, so they are going to be fine, the nose is carbon either side of the mount rails. The units are strong, I don't expect an issue.

SECRET AGENT

Whether it was intentional or not, it gives the visual appearance of not being well thought out or engineered correctly. Other than that it's a nice looking sport jet.

Dave Wilshere

Most people realise its intentional as all three poke down. Actually in flight with your eyes you hardly notice.

Dave

David Gladwin

Perhaps , one day I will tell the story of an Anson pilot ( they were a hack on the V bomber squadrons on the 60s ) . The wheels on the Anson protruded below the engine nacelles even when retracted.
With gear failure, he feathered both props. rotated the blades to horizontal on the starter motors, and did a wheels up , dead stick landing, with the only damage a broken pitot head.( which protruded below the nose.) Think it, the Anson T 19, flew the following day!

I think he got a medal (AFC) for his efforts!

So, perhaps, partly protruding wheels are not a bad idea!

David.

ChuckC

All three landing gear retract forwards and back? Guessing retracting towards the front? That would make a belly landing much less of an event...especially if the wheels were still free to rotate.

rcjets_63

What's the weird-looking small set of wings behind the canopy? Is that some fancy new receiver antenna? Looks like the boomerang antenna for a car phone.

Regards,

Jim

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ChuckC

That's funny' right there. Need some curb feelers, maybe a set of spinners for the rims...

Seriously-pattern guys stick those on the plane, but I wonder how much difference it makes? Too small for lift-more like something to take out turbulence-like G factor correction on prop planes, perhaps?

Also interesting and counterintuitive to me is the blending of the aft fuse into the stabs-more horizontal surface.

Dave Wilshere

It's called a Canalyzer, the pattern boys fit them (like F1 cars) to energise the airflow before it passes over in our case the rudder, it makes it even more powerful. It bolts on to the canopy, people will fly with and without it and see the difference. Rudder power is huge on the Mephisto.

The gear all retracts forward and the wheels turn.

DominicM

Post in error.

Dave Wilshere

Got a video when the flap servos worked?

DominicM

No. Sorry.