{"id":2884,"date":"2010-06-19T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2015-02-07T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:19:52","slug":"7-3-nose-gear-door-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/7-3-nose-gear-door-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"7.3 Nose Gear Door Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 35 of 39 in the series 07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

One of the final tasks for the nose gear door mechanism is a spring at the actuator. The gear is retracted with a hydraulic cylinder. But when retracted, it can (and does) move in flight. With a hard link between the nose gear leg and the actuator, the door will constantly be opening slightly when the nose gear bounces.
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The fix is to put in a heavy spring between the nose gear leg and the actuator.<\/p>\n

So I got a large spring and mounted it to the actuator.<\/p>\n

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Installed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Now when the nose gear moves a bit, the doors will stay closed. A final task is to create an up-stop behind the actuator that will define the closed position of the gear doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 35 of 39 in the series 07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

One of the final tasks for the nose gear door mechanism is a spring at the actuator. The gear is retracted with a hydraulic cylinder. But when retracted, it can (and does) move in flight. With a hard link between … Continue reading →<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"series":[31],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","series-07-landing-gear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}