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Old 04-13-2020, 06:59 PM
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I finished reinforcing the elevators with a heavy rib, covered over with carbon fiber. Also installed a tool steel hardened pivot rod.

Used construction paper to piece together the profile for the landing gear support formers.

Took a pic of the paper former, imported it into Solidworks, scaled it, and designed the actual cad gear support parts.

3D printed the formers to do a final fit check before actually machining the formers.

Everything in place, gears work, fit is good with a few design changes.

View from underneath of the left main gear.

Put the plane on it's back legs and use the stance to design the nose gear supports. I want a tiny negative AOA as it sits on the ground. I will probably have to cut down the strut a little.
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