{"id":2095,"date":"2008-01-28T09:08:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:54:06","slug":"7-2-1-nose-gear-installation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/7-2-1-nose-gear-installation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"7.2.1 Nose Gear Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"31\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 22 of 39 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/07-landing-gear\/\">07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The final task in completing the nose gear is to install a &#8220;captivator&#8221; bracket and an upstop. The captivator prevents the nose gear from moving side-to-side when extended. The upstop limits how far the nose gear extends.<\/p>\n<p>The captivator bracket install took almost a whole day. Even with a special tool that Scott made to assist. The two challenges are that the bracket has to be located in a very precise location which can only be determined when the nose gear is down.\u00a0 But that prevents you from getting to the bracket to drill the mounting holes. The second challenge is there&#8217;s just not much room inside the keel.<\/p>\n<p>The upstop was relatively easy.\u00a0 Just a U-shaped piece of aluminum bolted in to the top of the keel. But once that was done, the airplane was sitting on all three wheels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-28-IMG_5884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-28-IMG_5884-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-28 IMG_5884\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"31\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 22 of 39 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/07-landing-gear\/\">07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The final task in completing the nose gear is to install a &#8220;captivator&#8221; bracket and an upstop. The captivator prevents the nose gear from moving side-to-side when extended. The upstop limits how far the nose gear extends. The captivator bracket &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/7-2-1-nose-gear-installation-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[31],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-07-landing-gear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}