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11-10-2014, 09:52 AM
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Kitplanes photo oddity
I recently glanced at the latest issue and something jumped out at me from a pix on the cover.
Am I nuts or does the picture on the cover of Rob Hickman's exceptional RV-10 show his nose wheel and fairing cocked slightly out of pointing directly into the airstream?
IT could just be an optical illusion or a photo/print anomaly, but it got me wondering if there was a possibility that for whatever reason the nose gear could sometimes slew itself to the side in flight.
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11-10-2014, 09:56 AM
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This has been discussed in the past, as I recall folks were attributing it to the spiraling prop wash.
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11-10-2014, 12:16 PM
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All I can tell you is that we didn't manipulate the picture in any way (at Kitplanes), so what you see is what was there. Perhaps it was reacting to the prop slipstream as Mike says, and there were rapid power changes in involved to stay in formation.
That is a stock photo from our archives BTW - not something recently taken.
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11-10-2014, 12:21 PM
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Interesting. For grins I searched the interwebs for every photo of a flying RV10 I could find and I found 8 that appeared dead straight and one that looked just like the cover shot.
My guess so far is that it is temporary phenomena that happens in certain situations and that shot just happened to catch it.
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11-10-2014, 12:31 PM
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Or maybe the plane is cross-controlled for a nice camera angle?
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11-10-2014, 01:13 PM
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11-10-2014, 04:12 PM
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Yes, they do that
I remember being in my RV-10 with Van himself doing the flying, and we were in formation with the factory RV-10 and Van mentioned that the nosewheels sometimes **** off to a side.
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11-10-2014, 07:19 PM
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I have experienced this in my 7A in heavy crosswinds. You can feel the nose gear "snap" back to centre as it touches the runway.
There is a lot of keel surface on the back and it is free to caster, so not really surprising. It will follow the relative airflow.
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11-10-2014, 11:51 PM
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I'm thinkin' that unless you put in a crosswind correction, i.e. a "Slip", a crosswind would make no difference.
Once you are airborne, and the ball is in the middle, the aircraft doesn't "feel" a crosswind.
However, and intentional cross-control for a photo sounds more like it. 
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11-11-2014, 05:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rwtalbot
There is a lot of keel surface on the back and it is free to caster, so not really surprising. It will follow the relative airflow.
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So is the relative flow at that location flowing from left to right? think about the prop direction of rotation.
BTW it does the same on all of the -10 airplanes that I have flown if the caster nut is loose.
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