I suppose I could; but would be rather annoyed if it bent easily and I had to replace it anyway. I know; don't land hard, right? I won't (on purpose, anyway).
Maybe I will try it first; wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.
I wonder what people think I do when I am developing/testing a plane. It must be something like this;
"See, the way I do things is if a plane I am developing has landing gear that is entirely inadequate, I just tell myself "who cares, the customrer can just go buy something else or use the junk I send them and ruin the plane on the first flight".
Does anyone honestly think I would do that? The gear for this plane has been tested a lot on grass fields and has held up just fine. Not that I don't make mistakes, but I would never intentionally allow something to go out that could not be used.
TF
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