Tag Archives: U-801-R

Fuselage, Landing Gear

Final Landing Gear

Hours this entry: 4.0

November 6, 2020 chris

Installed the Landing gear and torqued to specs. The boys tried it on for size after we removed it from the rotisserie.

Fuselage

Landing Gear Part 2 Drilling

Hours this entry: 6

October 18, 2020 chris

Aligned the Landing Gear by clamping a piece of angle iron to the face of the gear legs. Then we pulled a string to either side, cross checking it with a tape measure. The string method is similar to how we used to mount wings on RC aircraft.

Also dropped four plumb bobs across another piece of angle on the floor to cross check.

Right gear leg mostly drilled. Lots of Boelube all over. The outer holds on both the inner and outer weldments weren’t drilled yet.

Fuselage, Landing Gear

Landing Gear Part 1

Hours this entry: 5

October 3, 2020 chris

Started working on mounting the landing gear. Drilled the center holes on the U-804 inboard main gear attach brackets and started to line up the gear. Decided we wanted to recheck the various methods and needed a few more tools to do it right and paused for the time being.

Total Build Hours: 383.25
Empennage: 149
Fuselage: 207.75
Wing: 0.0