Has anyone built their own landing gear?

"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
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Lou wrote:
This could be an interesting thread. There's a lot to this subject that
often gets overlooked.

Just a thought but the air/oil spring/shockabsorbers used on motorcycle
rear
suspenson might be useful in a trailing link maingear. They are fairly
light and the weight they support would be about the same as a 2-seater
light aircraft.


It's funny you should say that. I've wondering about that and possibly
the rear or
front shocks of the motocross bikes. They take a hell of a beating and
seem to stay
together.
Caveman, it's called an Asso V. Asso is Italian for Ace or thats
what I've been told. The picture
that the link goes to is red, so that means that somewhere there is a
big red asso flying around.
Lou

http://www.homebuilt.org/kits/littner/champion.html

That looks suspiciously like a Falco!

1000 pounds gross weight
Say 3 G's impact loading (on each leg, becaues sometimes that's exactly
what happens.

I'g go with 3000 pounds leg loading vertical and 1-1/2 G side load (1500
pounds)

Are you up on landing gear design?
(I'm guesing no, since you are asking here)

How about this...
Build it per plans, but with a fixed retract link?


Richard

And it's Lamb, Lou.
We're real sensitave about that the since Geico commercials.

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It looks suspiciously like a Falco to me as well--despite the reduced power
and weight. But, so do a lot of my own doodle pad sketches and that makes
it hard for me to critisize.

BTW, those Geico commercials are /really/ annoying!

Peter