Garry
The Monowheel is an Europa term for the bicycle landing gear, also known as
centerline
landing gear. The main gear are fore/aft and centered on the fuselage.
Most require some sort of outrigger to maintain balance.
The Lockheed U-2/TR-1, McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II and Hawker Harrier are
current "real" airplanes with centerline landing gear and are not motor gliders.
Older designs are the B-47 & XB-48. The B-52 is an extreme example with its
quadracycle
landing gear and outriggers.
Check six,
Bob Borger
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, at 12:26PM, "Garry" <garrys@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:
>Examples of monowheel designs have been proposed as follows:
>
>Schleiker K14............is a motor glider
>Glassflugel...............is a glider
>Schempp Hirth............is a glider
>DG Flugzeughbau...........is a glider
>SZD...........is a glider
>U2..........I was unable to determine if it was a monowheel or not
>ASW.........I was unable to determine what it was
>
>The only real airplane I've found is the Fournier RF 3,4,5, etc.
>
>Garry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Smith
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Monowheel designs... any others out there?
>
>
> Harrier ?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 24 Sep 2008, at 09:31, "Richard Lamprey" <lamprey@infocom.co.ug> wrote:
>
>
> Of course there are many... the U2... the wonderful Fournier series, RF3,
4, and 5... the Schleiker K14 motorglider
>
> Happy flying to all
>
> Richard, in Kenya
> Monowheel , no 168, 912UL, warpdrive at 17 degrees, operating from hot and
high 6000', 27 C, and it does need rather a long take off roll.
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