Emissions

I am converting a trike plane to be a tail dragger. Where should I place the main gear? Right on the center of gravity? forward of the center of gravity? or does it have to do with the front of the wing?

Buz^

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All my planes are dragger's, and to look , they have the axel's just under the LE of the wing. You want your CG behind the gear so it will settle in a landing.Look at the gear on my extra

Bruiser-RCU

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The axles have to be ahead of the CG. Most are set up so the axle is very close to the front of the wing. Some are a little further forward, like on an extra. Using a pre-formed metal or composite gear mounted to the fuselage right in front of the wing works great for transporting the fuselage because it will sit on all the wheels. If you build the wheels into the wing, it makes transporting the airplane a little harder becuase now the fuselage wants to tip over all the time and the wheel on the wing allow them to slide all around...

Mike James

I've just converted my kit-bashed Ultra Sport .40 to taildragger, to save a little weight. I cut a slot in the fuselage bottom, just in front of the wing, and installed a simple grooved hardwood block. I also installed some hardwood torque blocks on the inside (tank compartment) to support some simple wire gear. Ta da!

Details on the other changes I made are at http://www.nextcraft.com/us40bash.html

Here's a photo.