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A CRASH-PROOF LANDING GEAR By George White Our resident Englishman, Bernard Chambers, is still showing the local Yanks a thing or two. The latest is his scheme for attaching the landing gear to his two (yes, two) 30” deHavilland Tiger Moths. His attachment scheme is illustrated in the photos below. The front strut is permanently anchored to the fuselage and is free to rotate. As you can see in the photos, the bottom end of the front strut slides into a short piece of aluminum tube on the aft strut. When the model hits the ground, the aft strut is free to rotate, allowing the front strut to slide out of the tube. Then, as the aft strut rotates further, it comes out of the pocket in the fuselage where it is held by a magnet. The one thing missing from the photos below is a very fine piece of monofilament line attached to the fuselage and landing gear to ensure it isn’t lost on the field.

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A CRASH-PROOF LANDING

GEARBy George White

Our resident Englishman, Bernard Chambers, is still showing the local Yanks a thing or two. The latest is his scheme for attaching the landing gear to his two (yes, two) 30” deHavilland Tiger Moths. His attachment scheme is illustrated in the photos below. The front strut is permanently anchored to the fuselage and is free to rotate. As you can see in the photos, the bottom end of the front strut slides into a short piece of aluminum tube on the aft strut. When the model hits the ground, the aft strut is free to rotate, allowing the front strut to slide out of the tube. Then, as the aft strut rotates further, it comes out of the pocket in the fuselage where it is held by a magnet. The one thing missing from the photos below is a very fine piece of monofilament line attached to the fuselage and landing gear to ensure it isn’t lost on the field.

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