At 01:18 24 April 2007, Jack wrote:

Derek Copeland wrote:


Getting a big group of people together to lift a stranded
DG1000 off the ground after an U/C collapse, so that
the wheel can be lowered, has almost become a routine
occurrence at our club!

How do you go about this, in detail?


You ask them very politely! You get some of them to
squat under the mainspar and stand up at the appropriate
moment while others lift on the leading edges of the
wings. One person is required to operate the U/C lever.
The turbo version is significantly heavier to lift.

An Archimedean approach requiring fewer, weaker people might be to
simply 'walk up' the fuselage from below, levering about the ship's
changing nose pivot point, until the gear can be lowered. Works with 15
meter ships. Protect the nose, of course. Not an original idea. YMMV.

Regards,
Bob Whelan