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Old 05-24-2006 | 03:53 PM
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Koenieboy
Indeed, as Henk says, these are the ones I have now.
I decided to keep them now, already made long pianowire 6mm extensions, and a friend of mine is machining alu leg extensions to go in between the mechanism and the Jet for extra support. I need some 50mm extensions on the mains and 65mm on the nose. I kept the total nose strut about 10mm shorter, to have less angle of attack during landing. Cannot go negative as this brings the danger of not being able to rotate for take off, as has been said before.
Will post pictures in a week or two when they are finished.
The legs plus wheels now fit very precise into the fuselage holes, only I had to make the rectangualr hole for the gear leg some 4mm wider to accomodate the wider legs, so I have to make new gear leg cover plates to close the holes when the gear is retracted. No big deal.

I trust these legs will solve the bouncing problems, in the 1/1 world planes like some Cessna Citation models have them also and they are very easy to land.