Alan,

Just to get the FACTS, straight, I have never posted anything about my landing or the gearplate popping out on this thread. As for your statement that "It did not happen when brakes where applied", on first flights of a new airframe I always set brakes at any where from 50% to full on as I cross the threshold, the added resistance, as the main wheels touch, helps to pull the nose down quickly and get the airplane firmly on the ground and steering, instead of bouncing down the runway. In this case the brakes were set at 50% and moved to full immediately on touchdown. I use a BV SmoothStop valve. Since the gear handled the rolling resistance of takeoff without coming out it is my belief that the added resistance of the brakes being applied was enought to pop the plate.

I take issue with people making mattter of fact statements, as you did, as if they were there to witness it. Unless it involves me I ignore it.

The gear popped out, not because I "made a hard landing" but, because there was inadequate glue holding the plate in, as shown in the photos.

David S