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Mechanical Landing Gear Help?

27.4k HuskyDynamics01  2.1 years ago

So I'm working on a build that I don't want to announce just yet, but it was going well until I got to the main landing gear. The main gear of this bird uses four separate points of rotation to retract.

I figured that the easiest way to do this would be to actually have the gear operate mechanically (i.e. one powered and three floppy rotators), and I even managed to find an old build that used a similar system, but the angles of the various struts of the gear means that it isn't retracting cleanly, and currently can't extend properly at all.

I can't really remove the angles from the struts without making it look unrealistic, either.

Anyone have any ideas?

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    Good news
    I've figured out half of it (no seriously I did and it works pretty well)

    1.1 years ago
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    I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I've been working on other stuff for the last week or so though, so no real progress yet.

    +1 2.1 years ago
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    49.3k PlaneFlightX

    Sorry, I literally have no idea. My struts are not actually angled, I just added some fuselages to make it look like they are.

    2.1 years ago
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    @FarrowTECH @PlaneFlightX

    Well, here's a video of the real aircraft (now y'all get to know what it is I suppose). It's a little trickier than it looks, since the struts are all at different angles.

    2.1 years ago
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    49.3k PlaneFlightX

    Just keeping tweaking the struts until they work. That's how I did my landing gear.

    2.1 years ago