RE: Resin vehicles - customizing

Bill,

If this thing is very heavy telescoping landing gear will have to be
huge.
The main gear struts on our Dolphin are about 5 inches in dia and that
is
just to absorb a 600 ft/min drop of a 9000 lb helo.  To get any useful
absorption you really have to beef those things up.

Bob Makowsky

-----Original Message-----
From: bbrush@rev.state.ne.us [mailto:bbrush@rev.state.ne.us]
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 3:08 AM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Resin vehicles - customizing

BTW, I have also drilled out the forward fixed gun and I am replacing it
with
some brass tubing.  Oh and what do people think about telescoping
landing
gear?
Cool or dumb?  I'm thinking something to take the shock of landing.

Thanks,
Bill