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Re: Berube Gear Comments

Subject: Re: Berube Gear Comments
From: Nigel Hutchinson-Brooks <nhb@netspace.net.au>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:26:00
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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