LettersFromFlyoverCountry
Well Known Member
One of the things that always impresses me at condition inspection time is what a beating the wheelpants and gear leg fairings take in a typical flying year.
The underside of the wheel pants -- the paint -- can get cut up pretty good by spending too much time in the grass, especially if some of the grass has thick, stick-like weeds here and there (I'm looking at you, Oshkosh).
And because the gear leg fairing moves up and down within the intersection fairing on the wheel pant, that gets pretty worked over too.
The same is true for the nose gear fairing, the top of which "rests" in the upper intersection fairing of the lower cowl.
I wonder if anyone has developed any sort of solution to some of this (other than "stay out of grass"). I've put UHMW on the gear legs themselves and I've also put some on the gear leg fairings in spots, but that's pretty ugly stuff and it doesn't last that long anyway (at least up here where the temps change over the course of the year and all the grime from that area undermines its stick-to-it-iveness).
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