I flew the F-24 today

[Tom-D]

Although it wasn't a very long or good flight.

I was still taxi testing and had not intended to fly, but it got airborn as I sat the tail down after a high speed taxi. as it became airborn it really didn't feel right, Way too slow and power off so it sat it back down, and went off the left side of the runway into the grass. ("P" factor got me) and I landed a little crabbed. and blew a tire. but I didn't know it until I got bck to the hangar, and got out of the aircraft, and heard the hissing and watched the tire go down.

The tiube is on order, and the tire is OK, but the tube is an odd size ( 7:50 X 10") and will take a couple days to get here.

Bummer,,,,, but that is what testing phase is all about.

 

[Henning]

Bummer, but oh well. Whenever I do taxi tests in a TW aircraft, I treat it like a wheel landing and keep feeding foward stick until it's all the way and let the tail come down on its own.

 

[rottydaddy]

A close shave... I don't know the 24, but yes, maybe it prefers that you hold the tail up until it's really "done flying". I guess you thought it was time, but it wasn't yet...

Well, at least you can check "tail actually comes up during high-speed taxi" off the list!

 

[Tom-D]

Bummer, but oh well. Whenever I do taxi tests in a TW aircraft, I treat it like a wheel landing and keep feeding foward stick until it's all the way and let the tail come down on its own.

It sorta ballooned off the runway when I pulled power and relaxed forward stick pressure. IOW I was behind the aircraft, and had to get real busy real quick.

Nice thing, it did not go flat until I got back to the hangar, because I can't taxi with a flat on the mains. (wheel pant drags)

I removed the tire last night, and the tube is split all the way around the inner diameter.

OH WELL, what dosn't kill ya make ya smarter, we won't do that again.

 

[Anthony]

Glad it wasn't worse Tom.

 

[Dave2]

Although it wasn't a very long or good flight. I was still taxi testing and had not intended to fly, but it got airborn

Yeah yeah seems I've heard all that before, Tom aka Howard Hughes.

Glad you got it back without destroying the wheel pant. That would have really hurt.

 

[gkainz]

really glad to hear the tube was the only casualty!

 

[TangoWhiskey]

really glad to hear the tube was the only casualty!

Amen!!

 

[Henning]

It sorta ballooned off the runway when I pulled power and relaxed forward stick pressure. IOW I was behind the aircraft, and had to get real busy real quick.

Nice thing, it did not go flat until I got back to the hangar, because I can't taxi with a flat on the mains. (wheel pant drags)

I removed the tire last night, and the tube is split all the way around the inner diameter.

OH WELL, what dosn't kill ya make ya smarter, we won't do that again.

Yeah, s--- happens, like you said, won't do that again, and the lesson only cost you a tube, though I'm wondering why the tube split like that. Sounds like it may have had a pinch point already built in.

 

[Tom-D]

Yeah, s--- happens, like you said, won't do that again, and the lesson only cost you a tube, though I'm wondering why the tube split like that. Sounds like it may have had a pinch point already built in.

I don't think so, the big 7:50 X 10" has enough leverage to roll the tire off the rim and blow the tube, when set down in a drift. they will not slide like the little 6:00X6. The tire side wall is almost twice as tall.