blhollo2

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Anyone know of any good shock asorbing landing gear?

RCKen

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[link=http://www.robart.com/]Robart Manufacturing[/link]

Ken

bbbair

It might help if we knew what aircraft it was to be mounted on...

A shock absorbing landing gear can range from an elastic band to an Oleo system.

w8ye

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The music wire gear is the most forgiving gear without damaging your plane

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXAUS6&P=7

Jetdesign

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Dubro super strength landing gear - takes a beating and will make you look like a PRO landing your plane!

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXNM65&P=ML

Stripes

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. . .but if you are establishing a correct approach you won't need any shock absorbing; probably the reason why so few airplanes use it.

Villa

gaRCfield has it right. The DuBro landing gear he suggests is the best I have ever used. I use it on my 46FX pusher Canard and my 46FX J3-Cub weighing 7.5 pounds. The gear has nearly flattend on horrible landings and was not hurt or damaged in any way. It is true that if all of your landings are perfect and you never fly in high winds or cross winds and land only once per flight you can get by with less durable gear.

bruce88123

If you need stronger nose gear then Fults http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...FVSEARCH=fults makes very strong stuff.

blhollo2

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thanks for the replys, it will be on a Great planes cherokee, the stock nose gear is really flexable

bigtim

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if your looking for scale gear then Robart makes a good nose wheel strut for the cherokee.
with scale oleos there great looking and have alot better ground handling than most wire gear,because there quite a bit more rigid, there also alot less forgiving on landings, the travel is small at the piston, there is no give at the retract or gear mount, so a overly hard landing results in ripped up gear,its the trade off for scale looks and performance.