I had been looking at the AAC Beaver notes and they mention only 25 psi which I though was somewhat low. I seem to recall that some have had solid rubber tail wheels. So I thought I would throw the question to the great unwashed masses.
This raises the question that if it was a solid rubber wheel, then would the pressure be nil or 14.7 psi at the WMO standard atmospere etc !!
And I susspect it was the colour scheme that sunk it during that Picton Harbour incident on 22-03-90 !!
After telling me the tail wheel tire pressure. What can you tell me about this aircraft ?
de Havilland Beaver
ReplyDeleteYep - a Beaver - on floats with with no tail wheel tyre. So 0 PSI then :-)
ReplyDeleteYep. It is certainly a beaver (which was not the question). But not on floats. It is ZK-FPZ in the rear of its hangar at Taupo.
ReplyDeleteI like your line of thinking there Wayne.
Any more thoughts ?
As a floatplane it has spent time above, on and below the waves - the latter as a result of a storm in Picton in 1990
ReplyDelete35PSI tailwheel pressure according to documents I have.
ReplyDeleteHi there ZK-CKE.
ReplyDeleteI had been looking at the AAC Beaver notes and they mention only 25 psi which I though was somewhat low.
I seem to recall that some have had solid rubber tail wheels.
So I thought I would throw the question to the great unwashed masses.
This raises the question that if it was a solid rubber wheel, then would the pressure be nil or 14.7 psi at the WMO standard atmospere etc !!
And I susspect it was the colour scheme that sunk it during that Picton Harbour incident on 22-03-90 !!