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Friday, March 9, 2018

Main landing gear installed: 3 hours


  • Bled and tested my harbor freight shop crane
  • Used some old climbing slings through the engine mount to hoist the fuselage. 
  • Installed landing gear legs and found that the left side was contacting the fuselage skin and the right was a little to close. I marked the spots that needed to be trimmed, removed the landing gear and used the trusty dremel to trim the fuselage skin.
  • Re-installed the landing gear and torqued bolts. Hopefully gear is now on permanently.


The plane looks bigger on the gear!

Harbor Freight shop crane worked great:

I was a little nervous about having the fuselage in the air: