Wire Landing Gear
03-18-2009, 06:19 PM
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Wire Landing Gear
To give the "Spindly" looking landing gear, on the typical trainer type airplane, a more "Beefy" look, Add some greater diameter Soda Straw to them. I got the Red straws from our local Burger King and Sams...The addition took about five minutes. Adds a little something Doncha think ?
Hmmmmm, Still looks kinda spindly, don't it... Oh Well !
Ugo
Hmmmmm, Still looks kinda spindly, don't it... Oh Well !Ugo
03-18-2009, 09:54 PM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
yes pretty spindley and probably pretty bouncy as well. You could reduce the bounce by adding a horizontal wire across from one gear to the other. If you fly off grasskeep keep it high enough so it don't hit grass.
03-18-2009, 11:31 PM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
I have used colored shrink sleeve to get the same effect. If you want thicker you can shrink another layer on top.
Terry
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03-19-2009, 08:00 AM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
TedMo, Take another look between the Mains.[X(] No bounce Wire? Works real good ! As far as resistance and weight,,,Common now.Jack ! Thank you rsands208 ! It was just something to do...
Good idea, Terry !
Ugo
Good idea, Terry !Ugo
03-19-2009, 08:27 AM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
ORIGINAL: TedMo
yes pretty spindley and probably pretty bouncy as well. You could reduce the bounce by adding a horizontal wire across from one gear to the other. If you fly off grasskeep keep it high enough so it don't hit grass.
yes pretty spindley and probably pretty bouncy as well. You could reduce the bounce by adding a horizontal wire across from one gear to the other. If you fly off grasskeep keep it high enough so it don't hit grass.
03-21-2009, 07:50 PM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
In 07 i built a Fiesler FI256 & to get the gear legs more scale looking I made elliptical section Fairings out of shim brass, soldered tabs on the wire legs to locate the fairings & filled them full of silicone caulk so the wire could flex.worked good ,looked fine( no metal/metal contact between the tabs & the covers) They were not near as much trouble as it sounds
03-22-2009, 03:05 PM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
Thanks GreyBeard ! Flaps ALWAYS has something on the board ! LOL ! He keeps Ed Moorman busy as his Test Pilot. ( Ed Loves it !) Last week Ed tested a big P-39 Aircobra....
It bit the dust after once around the patch. Radio Giltch ! Ed couldn't save it. Flaps was sitting on my van bumper this morning at the field... He's now building a Big Fairchild 1930s high wing something or other... Flaps is 84 yrs. young and was a Marine fighter pilot flying Corsairs in WWll and Korea. Some of the stories... WOW !
As for me... I just finished a new Escapade. Nice airplane ! Been too windy to do much around here... (attach Flaps and a couple of his stuff)
Ugo
He keeps Ed Moorman busy as his Test Pilot. ( Ed Loves it !) Last week Ed tested a big P-39 Aircobra....It bit the dust after once around the patch. Radio Giltch ! Ed couldn't save it. Flaps was sitting on my van bumper this morning at the field... He's now building a Big Fairchild 1930s high wing something or other... Flaps is 84 yrs. young and was a Marine fighter pilot flying Corsairs in WWll and Korea. Some of the stories... WOW !
As for me... I just finished a new Escapade. Nice airplane ! Been too windy to do much around here... (attach Flaps and a couple of his stuff)
Ugo
03-22-2009, 09:17 PM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
Ugo, when I first started reading Ed's dribble I always thought you guys were a figment of his thought process, it took a few years of reading to find out the truth. I have been on Ed to put all his clip out stunt instructions into book form with stories about you and Flaps. I know I would like to spend a while listening to flaps relate and relive some of his past!! Just the story about how he got his handle was funny, maybe not to him but to Ed's readers. Maybe you guys could lean on him a little too??
Gene
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03-23-2009, 05:36 AM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
Adding drag is a very legitimate concern.
A round wire has TEN TIMES the drag of an airfoiled wire of the same thickness. So your thicker look is costing you even more drag penalty with no return. So why not make your soda-straw/heat-shrink REDUCE drag? Then you'll have the look you want plus an added benefit.
It'd be simple to do with the heat shrink. It might be simple to do with the straws.
The picture tells the story.
A round wire has TEN TIMES the drag of an airfoiled wire of the same thickness. So your thicker look is costing you even more drag penalty with no return. So why not make your soda-straw/heat-shrink REDUCE drag? Then you'll have the look you want plus an added benefit.
It'd be simple to do with the heat shrink. It might be simple to do with the straws.
The picture tells the story.
03-23-2009, 05:47 AM
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RE: Wire Landing Gear
I wonder if Flaps was in Chapel Hill in the middle 60s?
There was an Marine Corsair pilot who came by the parking lot, C/L field some of us used on weekends. He had a Corsair model he wanted flown. He had built it but didn't want to fly it. I flew it for him after spending awhile getting the tank replumbed and the engine started. He was quite happy to see it fly. Never saw him again.
There was an Marine Corsair pilot who came by the parking lot, C/L field some of us used on weekends. He had a Corsair model he wanted flown. He had built it but didn't want to fly it. I flew it for him after spending awhile getting the tank replumbed and the engine started. He was quite happy to see it fly. Never saw him again.
