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| (...) At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple design for landing gear. Here are some picture links: (3 URLs) Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down. The basic idea is to put together (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
| | | | | Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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| Steve & All, (...) Hey, I took those pictures! ; ) I wish I would have gotten more! Scott was having too much fun to worry about pictures! : ) (...) That ship is Mark Koesel's creation, an M-Tron MOC, which I loved to death. I took the picture of (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| (...) <snip> Yes, those are quite nice. I used the same parts for the 'gear on my Space Police Viper. I do like the ones in the pictures, however, because they use the parts in two directions, which would give the ship a bit more stability than just (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
| | | | | Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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| (...) You took the first two. Trevor took the third. Or at least, that's what the MichLUG site tells me. (...) Thank you, Scott! I totally couldn't remember. My bad. (...) Doh! I had forgotten that part! Steve (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
| | | | | Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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| (...) One thing that's not apparent from the pictures is that the hinge arrangement locks the landing gear from rotating -- it can only extend and retract. Which is not something you'd notice from just looking at it; you have to play with it to tell (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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