What do you do when you need to jack up a seaplane?
Can’t do it on the water. Jack keeps sinking, and mechanic can’t hold his breath long enough to operate the jack properly!
Bring it ashore……then discover the jack is too short and can’t reach the underside of the wing.
Answer….use a jack stand to raise the jack up, or if you don’t have one of those, use an M871 trailer, and mount the jack on top of it…..works a treat.
Even better when you have two of them, and can do both sides of the aircraft at the same time.
This was the solution used in order to do a “gear swing” (aviation term for making sure the landing gear goes up when lever is put in “up” position, and, more importantly, comes down when lever is put in “down” position. (Even for a seaplane, having the gear down is really useful when landing on something other than water!)
Can’t do it on the water. Jack keeps sinking, and mechanic can’t hold his breath long enough to operate the jack properly!
Bring it ashore……then discover the jack is too short and can’t reach the underside of the wing.
Answer….use a jack stand to raise the jack up, or if you don’t have one of those, use an M871 trailer, and mount the jack on top of it…..works a treat.
Even better when you have two of them, and can do both sides of the aircraft at the same time.
This was the solution used in order to do a “gear swing” (aviation term for making sure the landing gear goes up when lever is put in “up” position, and, more importantly, comes down when lever is put in “down” position. (Even for a seaplane, having the gear down is really useful when landing on something other than water!)
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