Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
#3
Senior Member
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
On the Cheap Thrill, I had the two-wheel landing gear sandwiched in a ply-balsa-ply box which inserted into the fuselage behind the tank, and was bolted in from the tank compartment. That way it could be removed for flying over grass too long for take off.
For reed valve mouse racers flown off hard surfaces, I sandwiched a one wheel gear in the ply-ply-ply engine mounting firewall.
For reed valve mouse racers flown off hard surfaces, I sandwiched a one wheel gear in the ply-ply-ply engine mounting firewall.
#4
Senior Member
My Feedback: (3)
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
The gear on the Carl Goldberg control line planes is sewn to the back side of the firewall. It's pretty light wire, but the planes are so light that the gear is a good match.
I don't care what or where you are in model aviation, you haven't "earned your wings" until you've flown 1/2A C/L over asphalt or concrete.
I don't care what or where you are in model aviation, you haven't "earned your wings" until you've flown 1/2A C/L over asphalt or concrete.
#6
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Perth, AUSTRALIA
Posts: 1,881
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
ORIGINAL: combatpigg
The gear on the Carl Goldberg control line planes is sewn to the back side of the firewall. It's pretty light wire, but the planes are so light that the gear is a good match.
I don't care what or where you are in model aviation, you haven't ''earned your wings'' until you've flown 1/2A C/L over asphalt or concrete.
The gear on the Carl Goldberg control line planes is sewn to the back side of the firewall. It's pretty light wire, but the planes are so light that the gear is a good match.
I don't care what or where you are in model aviation, you haven't ''earned your wings'' until you've flown 1/2A C/L over asphalt or concrete.
confused, you mean over, or into?
#7
Thread Starter
My Feedback: (1)
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
What in the 1/2A realm has been the Ultimate U/C -L/G design / arrangement?
We have one leg sandwiched between Ply. Two legs sandwiched between ply.
Willard 's Roaring 20 had a bent wire arrangement held on with rubber bands.
Pro's and cons for removable. Wire or Aluminum.
We have one leg sandwiched between Ply. Two legs sandwiched between ply.
Willard 's Roaring 20 had a bent wire arrangement held on with rubber bands.
Pro's and cons for removable. Wire or Aluminum.
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Perth, AUSTRALIA
Posts: 1,881
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
I'm not a fan of the roaring 20 method. It does allow you not rip your gear off every time you have a hard landing, but it still usually ends in folded gear up under the fuselage and an engine full of grit.
IMO thin aluminum is the best, and best looking. stalky undercarriage looks silly.
IMO thin aluminum is the best, and best looking. stalky undercarriage looks silly.
#10
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oakville,
ON, CANADA
Posts: 248
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
Hi skaliwag,
Don't know if it is the best, but works for me:
-1/16th 'inverted V' groove in firewall.
-lightest/narrowest wheels on 1/16th piano wire gear.
-gets held in place by the engine/tank mount. (I use Black Widows/Golden Bees)
Simple and easy to install/remove. The wire bends easy enough not to damage the tank back plate.
I only use wheels flying alone with a coat hangar wire 'stooge' release. Car mats work as a takeoff 'ramp'.
I prefer a hand launch, if possible.
And a 15ft streamer !
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave'crosscheck'Fallowfield
Maac 6437
Unabashed Combat Team
Don't know if it is the best, but works for me:
-1/16th 'inverted V' groove in firewall.
-lightest/narrowest wheels on 1/16th piano wire gear.
-gets held in place by the engine/tank mount. (I use Black Widows/Golden Bees)
Simple and easy to install/remove. The wire bends easy enough not to damage the tank back plate.
I only use wheels flying alone with a coat hangar wire 'stooge' release. Car mats work as a takeoff 'ramp'.
I prefer a hand launch, if possible.
And a 15ft streamer !
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave'crosscheck'Fallowfield
Maac 6437
Unabashed Combat Team
#11
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
On grass I really liked the old Ken Willard method used on the Roaring 20, Schoolmaster and others. Any tendency to bite the dust too easily is just a matter of how much rubber you used.
But then you have to replace the rubber bands sometimes. Being too lazy for that, I almost always use the torsion bar method, 3/32 dia wire for 1/2A, that Randy Randolph and many others use. The two wheels are not quite lined up, but it isn't noticeable, and it absorbs shock quite well and never rips out the bottom of the fuse. If it really gets bent up, just take off the straps, bend new wire, reinstall, and you're back in business. K&S bender makes this an easy choice for me.
Jim
But then you have to replace the rubber bands sometimes. Being too lazy for that, I almost always use the torsion bar method, 3/32 dia wire for 1/2A, that Randy Randolph and many others use. The two wheels are not quite lined up, but it isn't noticeable, and it absorbs shock quite well and never rips out the bottom of the fuse. If it really gets bent up, just take off the straps, bend new wire, reinstall, and you're back in business. K&S bender makes this an easy choice for me.
Jim
#12
RE: Ulimate L/G - U/C for 1/2A airplanes.
I used a combo of Buzzard Baits and Crosschecks back 30 years ago for the mouse racers. It is a torsion bar style with a bit of wire sticking up to protect the needle valve if it tips over on landings or the pit man is too aggressive. The two wheeled one is on a .21 profile proto but is what I usually use on profile planes. It is a torsion bar style. I have had one spank the ground very hard many times, and scrape the bottom of the fuselage pretty good, and it just springs right back. The pictures don't work on here.but the single wheel mouse gear is kind of a Z with the top leg of the Z being bent up like an upside down ? and the leg of the axle part bent back to the centre so the wheel is in the middle. It is clamped on the firewall with the Baby Bee backplate bolts in aV notch. The bottom leg goes pretty much to the edge of the firewall so there is room to bend back. The profile fuselage gear just is clamped at the back at the U, and then runs along the fuselage bottom to the front where it is clamped with a tin strap that is wrapped around the two wires and screwed in the middle.