George A. Graham wrote:

The fiberglass main gear like the Long EZ, will take crab landings
easily - I do it all the time.  The legs are flexible, and will
withstand tremendous abuse (I've done that too).

When I went splat coming back from Sun-N-Fun, the main gear legs spread
apart far enough to grind off the bottoms of the Cleveland brake calipers.
Thank goodness the nose gear linkage had already failed, the prop was
not damaged.

George Graham
RX-7 Powered Graham-EZ, N4449E
Homepage <http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ca266>

 
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