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Old 21st Mar 2019, 10:45
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blind pew
 
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Dowty?

Iirc the gear was from the fokker 50.
I was on one of the first courses when it was launched. We fitted DC9 shimmy dampers which only partly solved the problem as at extremely light weights we would get an ossilation and if you weren't strapped in properly you wouldn't be able to hit the brakes. Had it on the first Sunday after the new Munich airport opened and I grounded the aircraft. Ossilation triggered by the joints in the taxi way...like a Belgium or yank motorway.

After KLM at GVA a new gear was developed by Marucci? But after certification, during a flapless landing at max weight demo, it collapsed with the press on board.
Did a low fly past for GVA tower to inspect it after multiple bird strikes...took out a downlock microswitch.
Pussy cat to fly and managed to get 16,700 fpm on the clock once. Wasnt popular with the cabin crew though.
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