Pietenpol Aircamper Gear failure! A lesson in Geometry, metal fatigue and tubing thickness!
This landing was a surprisingly smooth landing. Looking back on the video; no drift, relatively slow descent, and straight down the runway. Unfortunately, the piece of thin-wall tubing that the axle was hooked to had flexed one too many times! Next time the builder should use the proper tubing thickness with a good triangulated design. ALL joints in a high stress cluster must align with each other as well as the load. You know the saying...."A good landing is a landing that you walk away from." This required some climbing to get down sooo, I'm not convinced.