Trigear tires
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:10 pm
by mccool
Building a Legacy trigear, (unless I can find a standard gear mount before I get to the stage where I have to mount the gear).
I fly out of a grass strip so I’m going to use 500:5’s on the mains. What have others done with the nose gear tire? Gone bigger as well, or kept the original size?
Re: Trigear tires
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:24 pm
by GraemeSmith
Don’t know what others have done - but if lifting the mains and not doing anything on the nose - you are going to reduce the prop tip clearance. So you might want to consider that.
Re: Trigear tires
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:11 am
by mccool
Good point, though the amount it would change, given the location of the nose wheel would be pretty minimal.
Re: Trigear tires
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 6:13 pm
by BRS
I’m curious. Can the trike get off the ground sooner than a conventional gear Sonex? Seems a trike would be able to rotate to a higher angle of attack while on ground roll than a tail wheel version.
Same thing with landing. I find the ground gets in the way of the tail wheel when trying to land slow.
Just something I noticed while flying last week.
Re: Trigear tires
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 7:51 pm
by Bryan Cotton
BRS wrote:I’m curious. Can the trike get off the ground sooner than a conventional gear Sonex? Seems a trike would be able to rotate to a higher angle of attack while on ground roll than a tail wheel version.
Same thing with landing. I find the ground gets in the way of the tail wheel when trying to land slow.
Just something I noticed while flying last week.
It seems likely the trigear could have an advantage. On slow landings I stick the tailwheel first and then stall it onto the mains. Good video on the last YouTube link I posted in my Waiex 191 thread.