In my trigear, I have experienced a tire blow out on both the nosewheel, and one
of the maingear wheels. The nosewheel blow out was quite severe with a violent
shimmy that I thought would shake the plane to pieces. No problem maintaining
directional control however, as I used the rudder effectively until the plane
slowed down and then used differential braking to maintain directional control.
With the landing blow out on the right main gear tire, I had already slowed
down to about 15 kts when the blow out occurred. Maintaining directional
stability was a real struggle. I shudder to think what would have happened
if it blew out right at touchdown speed. In either situation, it's not a fun
experience.
Garry V. Stout
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Subject: Re: Mainwheel punctures
> Alan, raises a good question about the monowheel - can anyone who has
> experienced a monowheel puncture on touch-down say what happened please?
I experienced a monowheel (G-GBXS) puncture on arrival at last years North Weald
Aerofair.
I landed on the concrete runway with, what must have been, a completely flat
tyre.
The experience was strange but I can honestly say that it wasn't a big deal
- the aircraft tracked straight and true with a very short ground roll. The
prop was never in any danger of striking the ground (though I was concerned at
the time) and the culprit turned out to be a stiff piece of lock wire that (I
assume) must have been picked up at my departure airfield.
Regards
Mark Waite
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