Dear All,
I may be mistaken, but I thought that G-RICS has been flying for dome
time, and my memory of its picture in the Europa Club mag is that it is
a conventional taildragger. Maybe someone in UK could post a picture of
it for camparison?
Nigel H-B #423, Melbourne Australia.
Shaun Simpkins wrote:
> Ed and Sue asked me to post my impressions of theBerube gear to the
> web. The installation looks very clean and quite simple. As compared
> to, say, an RV, the plane appears more squat.Of course, so does the
> monowheel. The closest other design in appearance I can think of is
> the Rand KR-2. I'm sure it could save weight over the monowheel
> installation. It will be interesting to see how much more drag than
> the monowheel, and whether the weight savings cancel out a lot of the
> difference. At this time, HB-YIB is the only conventional gear
> installation flying, and it has so many other mods that direct
> comparisons will be impossible. Shaun
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