Those Alaskan Pacers.

[Steve Pierce]

Friend sent me these pictures from Alaska today.
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[Tadpole]

Maybe if they sent you the pictures, they'll send me the real thing!

[Stephen]

Looks like ET's......

[JoeB]

That gear mod is interesting

[dplunkt]

Is itcommon in Alaska to put the antenna on the horizontal stabilizers?

what kind of gear mod is that?

[Steve Pierce]

I think that is the wing root fairing lying on the stab.

[Jon]

Off the line 14 after mine. I wonder how many of those built in between still exist.

[MN_flyer1]

The gear is interesting. Is the rear mount the original rear gear position or is that a float fitting. Seems like a good way to strengthen the gear some. But that is probably not how it would fail anyway.

[halestorm]

It's the original gear mount. Rear float fitting goes on right where the longeron bends at the back of the left door.

Sam

[rocket]

I spoke to a pilot with the three hing gear on his pacer a couple years ago. He had a gear failure in the past that included loosing the fitting. I think the failure mode I have seen on the pacer aircraft have all included compression in the inner leg to the budgie followed by the rest of the gear folding up. Every one was the product of a cross wind bounce at or over gross. I have seen the front fitting removed from a cub frame during a wreck but have never seen one torn off a pacer.

oh wait ! I have...I had a buddy make one with a strip of half tube that I hose clamped back on with....hose clamps, for the ferry flight. While we were patching everything back together me made the pilot groom his takeoff strip by moving the big rocks. One of those side of a volcano sand blow cold bay adventures. It is all coming back to me now; for better or worse.

Rocket