Hi Paul,

DOC should consider a separate weldment for the nose gear. In the
inevitable event of a hard landing only that weldment would need to be
replaced instead of the disassembling the entire engine compartment
to replace the MM as well. 2cents worth.

Dave Myth

Not easy to to do. If you damage the nose gear on a C 182 the whole
firewall needs to be replaced. I know of no airplane with
a brakeaway nose gear :)

If you have a scale drawing of something like that I would be
glad to look at it.