Garry
The Monowheel is an Europa term for the bicycle landing gear, also known as
centerline
landing gear. The main gear are fore/aft and centered on the fuselage.
Most require some sort of outrigger to maintain balance.
The Lockheed U-2/TR-1, McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II and Hawker Harrier are
current "real" airplanes with centerline landing gear and are not motor gliders.
Older designs are the B-47 & XB-48. The B-52 is an extreme example with its
quadracycle
landing gear and outriggers.
Check six,
Bob Borger
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, at 12:26PM, "Garry" <garrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Examples of monowheel designs have been proposed as follows:
Schleiker K14............is a motor glider
Glassflugel...............is a glider
Schempp Hirth............is a glider
DG Flugzeughbau...........is a glider
SZD...........is a glider
U2..........I was unable to determine if it was a monowheel or not
ASW.........I was unable to determine what it was
The only real airplane I've found is the Fournier RF 3,4,5, etc.
Garry
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Smith
To: europa-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Monowheel designs... any others out there?
Harrier ?
Sent from my iPhone
On 24 Sep 2008, at 09:31, "Richard Lamprey" <lamprey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Of course there are many... the U2... the wonderful Fournier series, RF3,
4, and 5... the Schleiker K14 motorglider
Happy flying to all
Richard, in Kenya
Monowheel , no 168, 912UL, warpdrive at 17 degrees, operating from hot and
high 6000', 27 C, and it does need rather a long take off roll.