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Old 08-25-2002 | 03:11 AM
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Default lt-40

Originally posted by tiggerflyer
mstroh3961,
I had a coworker who builds home built full scale planes show me where to place the main gear. There are some general rules of thumb but I don't know what they are. It has something to do with a percentage of the chord of the wing and the moment of the tail but for the LT it seems that just behind the first former of the cabin works well.

TiggerFlyer
Thanks I will do some more research

M