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F.8L Falco Construction Manual
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Revision 4, March 1, 2002
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Glue on 25mm wide 2mm plywood spacers around the perimeter of the fuselage frame on
the forward face only as shown in Figure 10. The purpose of these spacers is to provide a
flat surface fo the cowling supports.
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Draw the installation locations of the engine mount lugs on the front face of the frame.
See Drawing No. 114.
Figure 11
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Clamp the engine mount in position on the frame. The engine mount should have the
nose gear, engine mount lugs, upper drag strut, lower drag strut and drag strut supports
installed. Check the location of the engine mount.
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Clamp the drag strut supports in place. Check the alignment of the nose gear. It should
be located in the center of the nose gear bay, and the nose gear should retract with a
smooth action of the drag struts. If the “post” of the upper drag strut hits the bottom of
the slot in the fuselage frame, sand the frame for clearance.
Note:
When the nose gear is retracted, it will be exactly parallel to W.L. O. (or
perpendicular to frame No. 1). Do not attempt to get the nose gear to retract more than
this. As you will see, the three gear legs retract together, and that you cannot make one of
them retract more than the others.
The retraction system for the Falco uses springs in the screwjacks, which are compressed
when the landing gear is down, thus allowing for a certain degree of tolerance in the
system. When the landing gear is down, all of the springs must be in compression.
This compression is released on retraction and the gear is held up by the screwjacks which
are in tension. During inverted flight or negative-G turbulence, the landing gear will
“flop” up into the wheel wells as the springs are compressed. This is not desirable since it
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