Thank You to all that responded! I wish I had a website where I could
post pictures, guess that is the next item to deal with!
I managed to find some small driving lights that (with a little time and
patience) will "flush-up" into the nose of the pants and actually take
on the original curvatu
Is it customary to leave wheel pants on in the winter months on a KR? I really
don't know, so I'm asking. Seems that at my airport wheel pants are removed on
all aircraft in the winter. And I would imagine that the lights would go
through abuse they were not designed for. Seems that every time I
The plane I'm getting is already fitted for the wheel pant lights, but when
I do the tanks (after I finish my BD4, I don't want two planes on the ground
out of the air) I think I will put them in the leading edge as well. Might
leave the ones in the pants alone as long as they don't break but mostl
throwing,
until I could build some racing fenders. la...@lebanair.com
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:32 AM
To: KRnet
Subject: RE: KR> Wheel Pants Landing Lights
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"I guess I'm looking for pros and cons more than anything."
The most abused components on airplanes are tires and wheel pants. Even if you
don't operate off grass or dirt strips they just take a beating especially if
they are in the prop wash which basically means sand blasted. Already mentioned
Dave Dunwoodie Wrote
> So the bottom line question is how to align them? With the airplane in
> straight and level flight, where should the vertical beam be pointing?
> Straight ahead? Down by 6 degrees? Up by 6 degrees? Something like that?
I would sooner retrofit a landing light into the eng
Hi Dave,
The person, I'm getting my KR2 project from went the same route, though I
would really like to hear everyones opinion on this, as I was worried that a
wet runway would splash the inside of the wheel pants alot with water.
Thoughts?
Joe
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Dave Dunwoodie wro
I guess I'm looking for pros and cons more than anything.
I came VERY close to installing landing lights in the wings, but it
immediately became apparent that this would become an expensive
(intimidating) process.
As I am in the process of adding wheel pants, I thought that perhaps a
good shot
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