Fixed gear vs. retracts

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/2002 5:23:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
b4598070 at yahoo.com writes:


> --- Jeff Hughes <jhughes at hsonline.net> wrote:
> > 
> > The thing all you guys assume is that the only way
> > to have fixed gear 
> > is in the fuselage. I've got a Jupiter with torsion
> > bar wire gear in 
> > the wing, and you can't hurt it, no matter what kind
> > of landing you 
> > make!. It's tough, lite and maintance free.
> > Jeff
> > 


Excellent point Jeff. 
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. 

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.

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

Matt Kebabjian
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