Parkzone T-28 Trojan Landing Practice - July 12, 2009

This was my first time landing on pavement. My previous flights were on grass, which I found out is much easier versus pavement. The grass really grabs and slows the airplane down quickly. Not so on pavement. A couple of those landings were very bouncy. I believe my problem was that the airplane was carrying too much speed on approach and I was not flaring enough in order to scrub off speed. It took me 7 attempts to achieve a decent landing. Practice makes perfect.

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Science & Technology

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• Parkzone
• T-28
• Trojan
• RC
• Airplane

[roberttreboranita]

what i did to help landings on pavement......take off the wheels...(not the front one) slide on a small washer onto axel and glue in place....when stuck 100% put wheel back on then another washer..finaly put the nut on with a little threadlock and tighten slowly...you want to tighten up so that it takes a little (not much) effort to turn wheel on axel...os of course it acts like a brake...get it right and you can make pretty short landings on pavement....so..get it right little by little!!

[airplaneguy97]

nice vid!

[dtripakis]

Nice video !

Maybe the wheels are supposed to be bouncy, to absorb the shock ?

[rg26100]

get it on a nice low approach with the nose up so you will touch down on the back wheels.

[ginozavi]

to fast for landing

[gliding4life]

When the plane touches down, the angle of the wings change, which creates a boost of lift. Like you said, scrubbing the speed of should do the job.

Thanks for the cool foutage, I'll have my T-28 in a couple of days :-)

[kgh31386]

that's kinda funny the way it looks so smooth, then it just bounces. i think it might be your wheels possibly