Landing Gear
 

My 35-1/2" WS Yak all Foam electric plane, tail dragger, has a very weak main landing gear. The gear keeps bending and eventually it broke. I replaced it with a torsion bar type landing gear that is working out perfectly. The gear is made from 3/32" diameter music wire as shown on the attached two photos. The distance between the two bends that make up the torsion bar is 5-1/4" but I have decided it is too soft, so I am suggesting it be 4-1/4". The gear is anchored by some wood popsicle sticks glued to the foam and then tied with string thru the fuselage. http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=1992119http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=1992120

Very cool Villa and excellent adaptation on a profile of the old torsion bar gears seen on so many airplanes from the past:cool: Funny you don,t see as many these days on new designs and they work so good.

John

Hi John Buckner
For some reason I like landings and sometimes make one every lap of the field. That gear will literally last forever. We have 3-4 of those planes at our field, but after their gear broke they just removed the gear and belly landed. The gear is very simple to make.