Tom Hintz
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[h=1]Warbird Ground Wheels[/h][h=2]Because the other wheels left with the wing[/h]Text, photos and video by Tom Hintz, flyingrc.net
Posted– 1-29-2016
There is an unwritten rule somewhere that requires warbirds to have retractable landing gear no matter what. While the wheels going up and down looks cool in the air taking the wing off to go home means your fancy plane has nothing to stand on. Worse, it won’t roll around easily in the shop or the field without the wing. In my shop and trailer airplane parking space is always hard to come by so I needed to figure out how to move my Top-Flite Giant Scale P47 Razorback around with the wing (and main wheels) removed.
[h=2]Cheap, Not Pretty[/h]I made the Warbird Ground Wheels featured in this story from scrap wood, a salvaged landing gear (the only thing to survive a major crash) and a pair of wheels I thought were too small for our grass runway but perfectly sized for this project. I expect that someone will make a high end Warbird Ground Wheels out of expensive wood and all tweaked out to look really cool. I had like 20 minutes to spare, my warbird is nearing completion and I needed a way to store it in the shop. I found a piece of ¾â€-thick plywood and a piece of poplar left over from some long-forgotten project. I even had a large enough piece of ½â€-diameter dowel stock.
[h=2]Assembly[/h]
Posted– 1-29-2016
There is an unwritten rule somewhere that requires warbirds to have retractable landing gear no matter what. While the wheels going up and down looks cool in the air taking the wing off to go home means your fancy plane has nothing to stand on. Worse, it won’t roll around easily in the shop or the field without the wing. In my shop and trailer airplane parking space is always hard to come by so I needed to figure out how to move my Top-Flite Giant Scale P47 Razorback around with the wing (and main wheels) removed.
[h=2]Cheap, Not Pretty[/h]I made the Warbird Ground Wheels featured in this story from scrap wood, a salvaged landing gear (the only thing to survive a major crash) and a pair of wheels I thought were too small for our grass runway but perfectly sized for this project. I expect that someone will make a high end Warbird Ground Wheels out of expensive wood and all tweaked out to look really cool. I had like 20 minutes to spare, my warbird is nearing completion and I needed a way to store it in the shop. I found a piece of ¾â€-thick plywood and a piece of poplar left over from some long-forgotten project. I even had a large enough piece of ½â€-diameter dowel stock.
[h=2]Assembly[/h]
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To measure centers measure from the right edge of the right hole and the right edge of the left hole (left) that works out to be identical to the hole centers which you can then use to lay out where the holes go (right) on a piece of wood. Click images to enlarge |