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Old 01-15-2006 | 08:39 PM
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Default RE: BRIO Construction by the numbers

As someone suggested in an earlier forum, I drilled four holes in the bottom of the fuselage so one can get in and tighten up the landing gear (or check them while at the field with the plane assembled) simply by inserting the ball driver up fromt the bottom of the fuselage (if you look at the previous pictures, you can see the four small holes.

As you notice there are only four holes. I took the inside hole off of the metal landing gear leg, so I'm only using two screws per leg. Basically its a diagonal cut which between the metal removed and one less screw and blind nut, took about .4 oz off of each leg. Blind nuts will go in on the top part of the 1/4 inch ply landing gear plate.