David Denny wrote: > I also thought about buying > the Pazmany book on landing gear. Can anybody tell me if this book would > give me enough info to size the tubing and construct the gear ( mains and > nose).
The Pazmany book is a good one, but spends a lot of time covering gear on stuff like airliners as well as small planes. I don't think it goes into specific details of materials and sizes for small planes, but it does show where your gear needs to be with respect to CG and that sort of thing. He has another book called "Light Airplane Construction" that has all kinds of stuff in it, and two pages with some neat diagrams that you'd find handy. One of them is at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/gear.jpg , and tells a lot of the story. I think the best way for you to "design" one is to see what other folks have sucessfully used on planes with similar weight as yours, and shamelessly copy theirs. There are several web sites where folks have made their own composite landing gear, which has the advantage of allowing you to make it any length you wish (i.e. longer than the 24" Diehl gear)... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
