<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 9/5/2002 5:23:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, b4598070@yahoo.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">--- Jeff Hughes <jhughes@hsonline.net> wrote:<BR>
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> The thing all you guys assume is that the only way<BR>
> to have fixed gear <BR>
> is in the fuselage. I've got a Jupiter with torsion<BR>
> bar wire gear in <BR>
> the wing, and you can't hurt it, no matter what kind<BR>
> of landing you <BR>
> make!. It's tough, lite and maintance free.<BR>
> Jeff<BR>
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Excellent point Jeff. <BR>
Include also that the fixed gear must be made from carbon fibre and be expensive (with the pants), or it won't find its way on a Pattern Plane. <BR>
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To the original requester: Jeff's method is tried and true, has some built-in shock absorption as the wire twists to absorb the rough landings, is simple to install and is inexpensive as all get out. Except, do install pants on the struts.<BR>
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I prefer retracts and that's what I use generally. Why? Because fixed gear disorients me when the model is at certain attitudes, particularly when inverted. I have used the expensive types, and the inexpensive types like the Hobbico ($20 from Central), and find virtually identical performance. So that's what I use<BR>
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Matt Kebabjian</FONT></HTML>