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Old 01-10-2004 | 04:33 PM
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lslewis
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Default RE: Building the 7th Chadwick

The retracts are history! Not one reason, lots of reasons and they add up to the last straw... The nose wheel would not retract all the way, the retract was mounted too low. Also the coil spring interferes, the batteries interfere, the control horn interferes. I do not like the large retract holes in the nacelles, nor in the Fuse. They need wheel well doors to look good. More work.

All of these problems can be solved but not now and not by this old pilot. With 20-20 hindsight I should have planned the retract installation more carefully. Next time. The photo below is to give you a hint of the mess in the nose wheel well.
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