wing strut creek ?

[newmei]

How normal is it for 100 series Cessna wing strut to creek if you check for security during preflight. They don't move at the connection, just sounds like the strut cover is rubbing on the actual strut itself. Is this pretty normal have you encounter this?


Thanks!

 

[Typhoon1244]

How normal is it for 100 series Cessna wing strut to creek if you check for security during preflight...?

Assuming the 150 and 172 count as "100 series" Cessnas, I'd say it's normal.

Let me put that another way: every 150 and 172 I've ever pre-flighted creaked a little bit. I can't really say whether or not it's "normal."

 

[newmei]

Yea they count as do: Cessna 120, 140, 150,152,170,172,175 177,180,182,185,195.

Any others?
What exactly do the numbers mean anyways?

Thanks

 

[banned username 2]

Yea they count as do: Cessna 120, 140, 150,152,170,172,175 177,180,182,185,195.

Any others?
What exactly do the numbers mean anyways?

Thanks

They are "Model" numbers

Sorry couldn't resist... I LOVE stating the obvious!

 

[LR25]

Has there ever been a Cessna wing strut failure?

 

[hydroflyer]

If you hear it on the 177 or 195 let us know, you may have a serious problem.

 

[Typhoon1244]

If you hear it on the 177 or 195 let us know, you may have a serious problem.

(I just got that. )

 

[bart]

I have only heard of one Cessna strut braced wing failure. Happened near Atlanta last year: N219ME.

By the way, if a strut brace creeks, does that mean one can swim in a creak?

 

[newmei]

I can't see a strut failing unless it is bent already, which obviously you could tell its not. The bolts holding it in are shear strength, which would mean the bolts would have to snap, or the wiggle out if the nut came off. The creking I'm hearing normally seems to be the metal covering to the actual strut itself.

Thanks

 

[Goffer]

Yea they count as do: Cessna 120, 140, 150,152,170,172,175 177,180,182,185,195.

Any others?
What exactly do the numbers mean anyways?

Thanks

A friend of mine told me a while ago that the model numbers for most of the Cessna line are that airplane's Vne, any truth to that?

 

[Typhoon1244]

By the way, if a strut brace creeks, does that mean one can swim in a creak?

Makes me wonder what "sh|t creak" sounds like...

 

[bart]

A friend of mine told me a while ago that the model numbers for most of the Cessna line are that airplane's Vne, any truth to that?

I don't think so, otherwise 421s and 414s would be jet powered with swept wings, and the 750 (known as the Citation 10) would be supersonic.

 

[Swass]

A friend of mine told me a while ago that the model numbers for most of the Cessna line are that airplane's Vne, any truth to that?

No.