{"id":2763,"date":"2009-10-30T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:33:43","slug":"7-7-3-main-gear-doors-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/7-7-3-main-gear-doors-3\/","title":{"rendered":"7.7.3 Main Gear Doors"},"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 31 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 align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When the main gear is retracted, the opening (most of it) is covered with a door. This door has to be cut to fit. Here&#8217;s the door before cutting. (The pencil line are reference lines for cutting )<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0813-IMG_9453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0813-IMG_9453-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-10-21 0813 IMG_9453\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s the door after cutting. The tongue depressors are glued to the door to keep it flush with the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-30-0806-IMG_9482.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-30-0806-IMG_9482-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-10-30 0806 IMG_9482\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I looked at that bottom opening and thought about a second door to close that off but decided it would too much work for not enough gain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Then the back side of the doors have to be strengthened\/stiffened. This is done by gluing 1\/4&#8243; foam to the inside, beveling the edges and glassing over it with 2 layers of BID.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/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 31 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>When the main gear is retracted, the opening (most of it) is covered with a door. This door has to be cut to fit. Here&#8217;s the door before cutting. (The pencil line are reference lines for cutting ) Here&#8217;s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/7-7-3-main-gear-doors-3\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"series":[31],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","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\/2763","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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}