Jeff Scott wrote: > As Larry said, he and I both have the longer Diehl gear legs, although Dan > won't sell them that length anymore. His concern is for the leverage on > the aluminum castings in the wing as he didn't do any drop testing with > the longer legs. I haven't seen any problems after 500+ hours and ~1000 > landings, some of which were more of the style of "beat the plane on the > ground repeatedly until it quits flying." ;o) I use a 68" diameter prop > and haven't had any ground clearance issues (i.e., the prop is still > intact.)<
I don't have much KR flying experience, but I DID test the landing gear to 5 g's on my first landing! So there's a data point for you. If I remember correctly, I saw somewhere that Dan tested them to 3.5g's, so I just pushed the envelope a little further for him. Marty Roberts ain't got nuthin' on me... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
