RE: Yak-54 140
Hi all, I to am building one of these yaks and after reading all thats out there have decided to try and lighten up the plane as much as possible. One comment I would like to suggest is to replace the landing gear bolts with nylon ones. I have already read of one of these planes having the landing gear and mounting block ripped out on a bad landing. I have been using nylon bolts on the gear of all my planes for some time just because of this happening. It is less weight and if something bad happens usually you just have to replace the nylon bolts that tend to sheer the heads off the bolts. Also with all the neg. feedback on this plane I think its great that some of us are willing to try and make this beautiful bird fly. Mark