We just got done doing re-doing the gear wells on Tom Wood's P-51, and I was down in the cockpit putting in the wood floor panels, and the gear came up and those springs made my ears ring for a good 10 minutes, and man when you run the mule at 500 PSI, how much that plane can shake up on the jacks, it's a real eerie feeling on top of the wing...
51fixer wrote:
A number of years back I had Jim Beasley Jr help with a gear swing on his Mustang, Frenesi. I wish I had a picture of his face the 1st time he heard the noise of the springs twanging during the retract and extension. He was shook up by it and didn't think it was right.
I had to reassure him and told him he couldn't hear it due to the big noise maker up front but each time he flew it was making all that racket.
Rich
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