Talk:GAF Nomad

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Popular culture
An aircraft of this type gained international recognition by being featured in the old The Flying Doctors TV show. The tail number matches up with the green&yellow-striped aircraft in one of the images. But that would need to be verified. --MikeZ (talk) 08:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

More tech info needed.
There must be some "wing nuts" around with some more tech info on this machine. Rumours I've heard are: The very expensive swing tail hinges were cast aluminium, and that they simply had a lot of bolts put through them to change the design to fixed tail.

The Army found some evidence of metal fatigue in the tail plane area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.245.37 (talk) 08:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Fatigue apparently not a problem. The split Fowler flaps had a chronic 21Hz flutter at low speed. The N24 was unstable with full flaps, so they had max flap set at 10 degrees. Not so smart for a STOL. New flap kits became available to fix the problem. Both models had poor handling at takeoff, and were too sensitive to load distribution. Gipps Aero will need to do a lot of work to put this critter back into the air.203.213.63.240 (talk) 00:29, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

A bit more info, garnered from consensus in the 'Net. 4-Corners had reported serious metal fatigue in the tails. This was a beat up. Trim tabs on the elevators were sometimes found to have small cracks in the skin. Only Army machines seemed to suffer this. Cracks like this are caused by flutter, and can be remedied by small design changes. The M250 engines were mounted upside down, and there were suspected lubrication problems in the reduction boxes. Chip detectors in the gear boxes tended to give false positives, and so were useless. The machine should have been a good performer, and easily beating a DHC-6 in economics. The M250 engines are a good choice for an unpressurized machine that generally operates below 5000m. PT6 turbines have very poor fuel efficiency below this altitude, and are much more expensive.220.244.77.103 (talk) 01:53, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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