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Old 04-11-2004 | 08:45 AM
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Default RE: Great Planes Shoestring/previous posts

Thanks Cogburn, I checked out the other post you left, and that was a little more damage than I had. My landings are usally pretty smooth, and I'm not trying brag or anything, but when I was landing, and it broke on me, it was a 3 point, and it took out the rear bulkhead of the landing gear block only, and a few stringers, and the front bulkhead was not damaged, so I doubled it thinking that on landing the force would be applied to the rear bulk head, as well as puting hard wood 1/4 blocks just above the stringers on the belly under the landing gear, attaching both bulkheads together at the bottom, instead of just those wimpy 1/8 stringers, and reinforcing the sides of the two bulk heads that sandwich the landing gear block with ply, instead of the factory installed balsa. I hope this works, but since you mentioned putting a doubler on the front bulkhead of the gear, I might go back and do it to. Thanks for the reply
Andy