landing gear

Today is a good day. I'm finally about to pick up the last of the re-coated metal parts for the RR3, and it's time to throw it back on its wheels for a while. I talked to a fellow RR3 builder who put a recovery chute in their plane, and he said the original bungees sagged on the ramp under the...

In the course of doing some research on designing a retract system for my bird. I am particularly interested in an electric actuation system. Does anybody know of any actuators out there that are suitable for a light aircraft (ie under 2500lbs). I already have a design for the struts and...

Anybody ever heard of the Heinkel He 222 - referenced in Pazmany's "Landing Gear Design for Light Aircraft", page 186. I quote - "The landing gear illustrated in Figure 10-121 employs a unique torsion spring arrangement. Four torsion bars are restrained from rotation at the top by means of...

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The short version is that I bought a fuselage for my Super Baby Great Lakes. It came with spring landing gear (among other things). As an aside, I'm the fifth (!) owner of this fuselage. It needs some work, but I think I'm ahead by buying it. Anyway, I have a question about the spring landing...

I know LSAs have to have fixed. What about 103ULs?

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Hi all, I am trying to build a low cost trike frame (although I plan to buy the wing), and before I could cut the first metal, I have already stalled with the rear suspension. Here are the issues: 1. I have discarded the flat Grove type spring aluminum landing gear idea as too expensive...

We are now manufacturing rugged tailwheels assemblies designed for SuperCub type, back country airplanes. They come with either a 1 1/2" flat tailspring mount (can use 1 1/4" tailspring with a shim) or the tapered round tailspring mount like on a C185. Check out our website for more info...