http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/a ... tml#193832

Check it out. How do you loose a strut on a 185 after take off.

Tim

Tim, I helped ya out here with the embedded YouTube video... -Zane

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It looks as though the struts are both in place. He appeared to lose the left gear leg though. Now I'd say a misjudged buzz job off the cuff. Seen that one more than once not necessarily buzzing illegally but hitting levees in rice fields spraying. However, due to the fact that the right door was a jump door (opened up) and I could see a step on the right side it was a jump plane. That considered it could have just had a ton of cycles with poor maintenance and somehow got loose (I've seen BOTH gear legs fall out from underneath a turbine Ag-Cat after takeoff once due to the same!). But also being a jump plane the buzz job scenario is plausible. I only know because I flew jumpers for almost 4k hours. Either way.

Think it is a 185 and have never seen one of those used as a jump plane.

Tim

Oh yeah, it's a 185.
I used to haul jumpers with mine. Had an IO-550 with Precise Flight speedbrakes. Cool lapse rate gave 15 minutes to 12K with 5 jumpers and three loads of fuel. Florida lapse rate was 18-19 minutes for the same.
There have been a more than a few over the years used for jumping.

G3-

Possible thread hijack: What's the difference between cool and hot lapse rates? Isn't the only thing that makes a more radical adiabatic lapse rate the moisture content of the air? i.e. dry = 5.5 deg/1000 ft and wet = 3 deg/1000 ft? Do you mean the moist air of FL vs the relatively dry air of Idaho? Just curious. If I don't discuss this stuff I tend to forget it over time.

Something like that Zane. I don't get wrapped up in the science of it, I just watched the clock. I guess I also watched the OAT guage and more often than not in July it was 50ish at @11k in Florida and in Oregon, Idaho, Vermont it was more like 35-40 @11-12K. But yeah something about moisture being bad too. Quit confusing me!