Jacking up a Sonex

[fastj22]

You could sharpen on edge on it and use it as an emergency machete too!

If you go into production on these, count me in and I'll even volunteer to be the US distributor for them to save on shipping costs.

[Rynoth]

Today I tried various methods of jacking my tailwheel Waiex including cinderblocks, 2x4s under the fuselage, etc. I landed on the hose clamp on gear leg method and it worked brilliantly. My concern was scratchig the titanium and I took it slow, but in the end not a scratch on the leg. It also seemed far more stable than jacking beneith the fuselage (since the jack point is farther out near the wheel.) Even the hose clamp was undamaged (I only had one in the hangar and used it on both gear legs twice.) After jacking up each leg twice, even the hose clamp itself was undamaged.

[Bryan Cotton]

Here is my entry:

It is just a short piece of 2x4 screwed onto a 4x4. Worked great. Also I had the tail on a sawhorse, so the floor was more or less level.