Agreed, the test plan already calls out for full-scale static testing of the support structure in flight, emergency landing and crash conditions. I was wondering how to substantiate the ability of the rub strips not to wear away completely in a gear up landing configuration. Is it acceptable...
I have been given the responsibility of the design/analysis/testing of our fuselage gear up landing rub strips. These parts are too be designed for the 3g gear up landing with mu = 0.5 with the ground per 14 CFR 23.561(c). My questions are, has anyone here had experience with what the FAA...
Sorry, I should not have made such a blanket statement. I was thinking of a more heavily loaded wing with many more plies of tape in the cap. The amount of time/money spent on scarfing and repairing would be very high and would require additional analysis/testing to substantiate.
One thing...
One thing to remember is that when Raytheon was certifying the Starship, was that it was one of the first GA aircraft to go though the FAA ACO. As a result, the structure had to include much higher environmental and material variability load factors as well as scatter factors for fatigue...
