Peter Zutrauen wrote:
> Thanks for the great info John,
>
> Hmmmm.. This has me worried.
>
> If Europa is only planning on producing the Europa till the 1000-mark, How
> close are they to that now, and how long will that take?
>
> I hope that they will continue to produce the monowheel variant for the
> North American market, regardless of the European regulations...
There are no European regulations involved: what is clear is a need for
a
taildragger conversion, and my guess is that within a year it will be
offered
both as a build option and as a retrofit - certainly the FLYER
taildragger
conversion will be offered as a retrofit, but whether it's a "private"
mod or a
factory one remains to be seen.
We are in the final hours of stressing the attach structure (using
tri-gear
maingear legs) - and it's looking very good. the structure is far
lighter than
the trigear attachment - basically using fibrelam bulkheads with flanges
stiffened by carbon - and we have been able to reduce both the number
and height
of the bulkheads. Once some test samples of the old/new interface
(critical
sections of flanges) have been proof-loaded to destruction, and the
numbers
correlated to the software predictions, we will be able to cross the T's
and dot
the i's on the design: that should be in the next month.
Anyone wishing to have a PDF of the most up to date concept drawing
please email
me (privately) under the heading of "taildragger drawing" and I will
send it
when I get back from holiday in a week's time or so.
all the best,
Miles
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