Warbird Information Exchange

As a test of my new photobucket account, here's a pic of an O-1 on tandem gear taken a couple of years ago. It wasn't too practical on paved surfaces and the tandems were quickly removed.

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looks like a mutation, like finding a catfish with 9 eyes in a polluted pond!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

They must have figured if the idea of converting from a pair to multiple wheels worked for the B-36 it should be applied for everything else! Good old US military thinking...

lol...

Robbie

And found a close-up of the R/H installation...

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After seeing your closeup photo, it doesn't look like this setup would have been too successful in the mud
either. I can hear the maintenance chief cussing now whilst carving the gumbo goo from the works of
this contraption!

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Are the two sets of chocks really necessary or is that someone's idea of a joke?

I'm thinking I may have to do one of my little Airfix BirdDog's like this.

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-Al Sauer
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they should try roller blades

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

they should try roller blades

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

My buddy Eric Presten has a set of the Whitaker Tandem Landing Gear that he uses occasionally on his 1949 Piper PA-16 Clipper, and they work pretty good on the grass or a rough strip, but not too good for making tight taxi turns. They were originally designed for the Piper aircraft as Whitaker was a Piper distributor. I wrote a short article on it a few years ago that can still be found online at:
http://www.landings.com/evird.acgi$pass*84289668!_h-www.landings.com/_landings/pacflyer/jun8-2006/Jn-70-piper-clipper.html

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Roger Cain
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We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

Can't get the abovve link to post correctly, so you may need to copy and paste it in, sorry........

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

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Are the two sets of chocks really necessary or is that someone's idea of a joke?

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Just trying to see how silly we could make it look

And regarding Roger's comments about not making tight taxi turns well; well that is probably an understatement. On pavement, the only way we could get the O-1 to change direction was to get a good head of steam up and then steer with the brakes. It was pretty hard on the gear so we pulled 'em off before any flights were ever attempted.

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"They can teach MONKEYS to fly better than that"

http://www.heritageflight.org
http://www.bravo369.org

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