jaysplains

i have a astro hog and i built it ot be a tail drager and it is nose havy and i think the landing gaer is to far back i built it and put the gaer were its soposto go is there anyone who has one or knows what i should do should i put landing gaer i front of wing? if anyone can help

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broke_n_bummin

Normally, on a tail dragger, the axle of the gear (the center of the tire) is even with or just in front of the leading edge of the wing.

carrellh

I had a Hog built, per plan option, as a tail dragger. It wasn’t terrible about nosing over but it did do it more than a lot of planes. After the plane was built I saw a thread on RCU that suggested putting the gear blocks in the wing about an inch in front of where the plans specify. Since you have to cut the notches in the ribs yourself, this would have been easy to do during the build. A hard landing loosened one gear block. I bought a Dubro nylon/fiberglass gear and mounted it in front of the wing. That’s slightly further forward than you really need but it’s the easiest thing to do on a finished plane.

jaysplains

thats the anser i was hoping to hier i thought thats what i was going to do just needed some feed back

thanks all