I attended the EAA Homebuilt Biplane Roundup webinar last night. It was given by Budd Davison.
He went through a list of biplanes talking about each one that he has flown. When he talked about the Skybolt he mentioned both gear heights… but then he also said to watchout for the bungee truss.
He said that when he was sitting as a passenger in one, the pilot needed to use hard rudder. This caught his foot between the rudder pedal (I’m assuming) and the bungee truss. He couldn’t get his foot out and the pilot couldn’t apply more rudder to correct the situation he was in (I think it was on landing this happened).
The correction the owner of the Skybolt made was to attach 2x4’s to elevate the passenger’s feet above the truss. Or he made a suggestion of making a platform to raise the passenger’s feet above the truss.
This would basically render the front cockpit as useless for using rudders or brakes, no?
Has anyone experienced this? If so, did you make a modification similar to the one Budd mentions?
He went through a list of biplanes talking about each one that he has flown. When he talked about the Skybolt he mentioned both gear heights… but then he also said to watchout for the bungee truss.
He said that when he was sitting as a passenger in one, the pilot needed to use hard rudder. This caught his foot between the rudder pedal (I’m assuming) and the bungee truss. He couldn’t get his foot out and the pilot couldn’t apply more rudder to correct the situation he was in (I think it was on landing this happened).
The correction the owner of the Skybolt made was to attach 2x4’s to elevate the passenger’s feet above the truss. Or he made a suggestion of making a platform to raise the passenger’s feet above the truss.
This would basically render the front cockpit as useless for using rudders or brakes, no?
Has anyone experienced this? If so, did you make a modification similar to the one Budd mentions?
