Since you are located on a Golf Course w/ Sand Traps, you should do a Comparison Test of landing/take offs, using Wheels vs Skis on Sand. I vote for skis!
This was a disappointment for me as well. That and the size holes in the plastic firewall, the included screw heads stripped out, even after manually reaming hole beforehand.
Ship kits with wheel collars. Maybe FT does now, I'm just starting this kit my wife gave me 2 Christmases ago. The holes in the firewall to mount motor X-member needed reaming, in the end, the screw heads stripped out. FYI
If you bought the value bundle, you should have everything in the kit to do tricycle except for the wheels. I ran to the hobby shop to get some smaller wheels.
Hey guys, I just ordered a couple of these kits, but can't figure out what comes in the hardware kit with it. Specifically wheels - does it come with any?
Much better design on the tail dragger front landing gear. The old foam-only design just tears up the fuselage. I've been making my own wood brackets just to avoid this. Hope to see this come to older models as well.
You show how to build it with tricycle gear but you don't tell what your plan is for stearing the nose wheel. The main problem is that you show bending the wire and you should have put a stearing arm on the straight part of the wire before the last bend so you have some way of grabbing it to stear it.
Since you are located on a Golf Course w/ Sand Traps, you should do a Comparison Test of landing/take offs, using Wheels vs Skis on Sand.
I vote for skis!
Even though I did not build the tutor, I used this video to help make the landing gear for my other airplane.
Thank You for this video
What is the gauge of the wire used for the landing gear?
Thanks
At the end when you say adjust the nose, how would you do that? Bend the wheel wires? Seems everything would be fixed in plage otherwise.
I like it! Big improvement over the Simple Cub. 👍
Seems much stronger than the Simple Cub one ... but how do you steer the plane during taxi if you glue the BBQ skewer to the fixed part of the rudder?
At this rate. By the time I get one, I'll be a pro already. LoL
What wheel collars? I didn't get any in my kit?
This was a disappointment for me as well. That and the size holes in the plastic firewall, the included screw heads stripped out, even after manually reaming hole beforehand.
Ship kits with wheel collars. Maybe FT does now, I'm just starting this kit my wife gave me 2 Christmases ago. The holes in the firewall to mount motor X-member needed reaming, in the end, the screw heads stripped out. FYI
If you bought the value bundle, you should have everything in the kit to do tricycle except for the wheels. I ran to the hobby shop to get some smaller wheels.
I think I could enjoy Josh just reading the dictionary 🙃
Hey guys, I just ordered a couple of these kits, but can't figure out what comes in the hardware kit with it. Specifically wheels - does it come with any?
Much better design on the tail dragger front landing gear. The old foam-only design just tears up the fuselage. I've been making my own wood brackets just to avoid this. Hope to see this come to older models as well.
You show how to build it with tricycle gear but you don't tell what your plan is for stearing the nose wheel. The main problem is that you show bending the wire and you should have put a stearing arm on the straight part of the wire before the last bend so you have some way of grabbing it to stear it.
hey and airplane construction templates
There wont be any 🤷♂️
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