After I installed the landing gear it raised the front of the plane up causing the rudder to drag the ground. I wanted it higher for the clearance of the camera on the bottom of the plane so I fabricated a tail dragging wheel. I used some more steel wire from the local hobby shop and bent it to make an axle an axle. I used one of the foam wheels from the original super cub landing gear that I removed when I upgraded it. I sandwiched it between two pieces of foam board from the Dollar Tree hot glued it together and attached it to the back of the airplane with bamboo skewers .
After testing iit in the drive way I realized that I wanted it to be slower so I built a tail skid from foam board and a bamboo skewer to add drag to help slow it down on pavement. The wheel will work well when landing on grass. You can see the first test flight after the crash here
After testing iit in the drive way I realized that I wanted it to be slower so I built a tail skid from foam board and a bamboo skewer to add drag to help slow it down on pavement. The wheel will work well when landing on grass. You can see the first test flight after the crash here
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