landing gear

You can make a steerable nose gear for your Retro Rocket using readily available materials! One of our club members came up with this method that can be done with a swivel ball link, by epoxying a servo arm to the landing gear arm, or by using a typical steering arm. Glue a 1/2" thick wood...

FT Landing Gear Heavy Description: The printable FT Landing Gear Heavy files are great for our scratch building friends but also for those who have had a few too many rough landings and need to print replacements. The files include the 3D printed landing gear inserts and receivers that screw...

Need help with landing gear for early attempts at plane shown here is my first attempt which violently smashed into the ground and is now in pieces it suffered from uncontrollable roll i learned from the previous one and the X2 no longer has elevons but ailerons and an elevator hoping to fly...

The front wheel on the Mini Guinea is held in place by two pieces of stirring stick. A moderately rough landing will tear those out. This part goes into the cavity where the paint sticks normally go. It increases the surface area for gluing by about 10x so that it won't tear out so easily. Also...

Bonjour tout le monde, Je m'appelle Cédric, j'ai 38 ans et je suis un nouvel acheteur du puissant mini corsaire v2. Pardonnez-moi si mon anglais n'est pas bon, je suis français et j'utilise un traducteur, car je suis très mauvais dans cette langue. Je suis ici pour trouver des trucs et astuces...

About a year ago, I built my FT Spear. For this build I used quite a few 3D printed parts. Most are available on Thingiverse. I wanted it to have landing gear because the field I flew on at the time was paved and didn't have a good grassy area to land. I designed the main gear struts in...

Okay, so I've despised, hated, wanted to melt with a torch never really liked the castoring nosewheel on the FT Mini Guinea. I came up with a steerable nosewheel on my first MG, using the supplied 1.5mm wire, but found that, shall we say, inadequate for my beginner landings? The spring was an...

Flyingshark submitted a new resource: FT Tutor Main Gear Support - 3D Printed Main Gear Support for the FT Tutor Read more about this resource...

This is a 3D-printed version of the main gear support for the FT Tutor, which is the only plywood/plastic part required for the taildragger version. (The tricycle gear has a couple pieces for the nose gear that I haven't tried to print yet.) I printed mine out of PLA with 100% infill, and it...

First question... what is the scale of the mighty mini corsair? Trying to get the scale so I can get the right size landing gear. Second question... What primer and paint would I use? Third question: If I want four cell power, which power pack would I buy?

FT Legacy V2 Landing Gear Design By: David Jester 3D printable landing gear mounts for the Flite Test Legacy V1 and V2. They can also be used on other aircraft models by adjusting the length of the joiner wires. These mounts are designed to use Ø .125 inch wire for the main gear, and Ø 3mm...

I am very new to RC (somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 hours total flight time) I wanted to either make custom landing gear for my Horizon Carbon cub (this is a 1.3 foam airplane. Total of 5 lbs) or build on what I have. The wire landing gear on the carbon cub I don’t really like, it’s flimsy...

Hey y'all, I am in the middle of building the FT M.M. Corsair and am looking to put some retracts on it. Does anyone have files for 3d printable rotating retracts? (like seen on the corsair) Also, is it feasible at all to try to put rotating retracts on a plane that scale? (30 in wingspan) or...

Hi. Im building a 2,6 m scale glider. Is there anybody that has some blueprints for a retractable landing gear, with 55 mm wheel. So i can gut it out off fiberglass, or wood.

When JGPLanes designed the White Diamond, he asked for someone to do an EDF version. So I upscaled it to adapt to a prop and EDF version, added my udder rudder and it is a "goto" airplane in windy weather. Then jfalleo1 added his version using retracts. So I decided to experiment with landing...

I was wandering if there would be any way that I could fit an FT Corsair with a retractable landing gear. I don't really know anything about the different mechanisms like air or mechanical or how they really work.

This was actually a good landing, but there's only so much that foam gear can take. I 3d printed a replacement from the FT Thingiverse page which is much more solid.

I am trying to successfully make some hand-crafted nose gear. I have tried an idea and it generally works. But it has two fail points. My attempt: I use a chop sticks for the main strut. And use landscaping wire for the angled piece which acts like a spring. I sandwich two pieces of FB with...

Hi! I've been flying the FT Sportster for 2 weeks, but every time I fly, the landing gear becomes more and more damaged. I've tried diferent landing gears, but they break easily and I don't know what to do. I made a landing gear which looks like the FT Mig-3 one, and it worked well, but I've...

I have built some airplanes. But I m not able to build or make one perfect landing gear for those. I need to hand launch them. And so landing becomes a very hard task without landing gear. I m Indian. In india landing gear are very costly not talking about retractable a normal landing gear. That...