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Richard Pike

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 1671
Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:24 am Post subject: Firestar tail question

One of our locals has an older Firestar, about an 1988 model, and he 

recently had to repair the lower tailwheel section under the tail, the 

tailwheel diagonal strut had corroded badly due to the area having no 

vent holes.  He is repairing it and has said that he does not intend to 

recover it, but leave it open. We talked about this and it came up that 

not covering it may be a poor idea inasmuch as this section probably 

adds to the total vertical tail surface area, and the airplane may be 

somewhat less directionally stable without this area covered.



Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of this that I can pass on to him?



Thanks

Richard Pike

MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)

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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: Firestar tail question

Richard P, 

	I have read in several places that, that area of the vertical stab

under the horizontal stab is vital to spin control/recovery.  I certainly do

not know if homer had that intention in creating that area, but it

theoretically has a purpose.		-richard swiderski



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Richard Pike

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: Firestar tail question

Thanks, I passed that info on to the owner of the Firestar.

Richard Pike

MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)



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Richard Swiderski wrote:

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 Richard P, 

 	I have read in several places that, that area of the vertical stab

 under the horizontal stab is vital to spin control/recovery.  I certainly do

 not know if homer had that intention in creating that area, but it

 theoretically has a purpose.		-richard swiderski



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Possum

Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 112
Location: Georgia

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: Firestar tail question

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I've been flying it that way for almost 7 years now - hasn't caused a problem.

I too - didn't want to cover up what I thought might be a problem to 

get to later.

Never was a problem... but never got around to covering it either. 675 hrs.

No problem. If you spin them, that's the least of your worries. These 

things are

very hard to spin anyway and you couldn't do it by accident. If you 

want to try,

their are plenty of things in the archives to give you spin instructions.



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One of our locals has an older Firestar, about an 1988 model, and he

recently had to repair the lower tailwheel section under the tail

He is repairing it and has said that he does not intend to

recover it, but leave it open.



Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of this that I can pass on to him?

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