"Dick" wrote in message
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Having a "better G" idea, decided to hang my engine on M1 fuselage
without wings in order to have the ability to roll it outside the hanger
for breakin efforts.

After struggling with several versions of a wooden framed, wheeled
"wagon", a thought occurred that I may be "reinventing the wheel" (as
usual).

Has anyone out there found a method to move the "engine on fuselage
without wings" or move a completed plane with one wing removed?? The M1
has main gear on the wings, not on the fuselage.

Thanks, Dick


In order to move my Piper Apache fuselage around the hangar while I have the
wings off I made up a little cart. It is basically a frame with two ends
and a bottom mounted on large heavy duty casters. I stretched a length of
carpeting about three feet wide across the frame ends to make a wide carpet
saddle that the fuselage lays on. When I park it I put a two by six through
the spar openings and take a bit of a strain on it with the jacks. That
steadys the fuselage in the sling. The third wheel on the ground also
steadys it fore and aft. It looks kind of like an old bedstead with carpet
slung from the headboard to the footboard and the airplane across the bed!
:-)

Highflyer