Now that the holes have been countersunk and made ready for a clean flush mount in my rc plane’s wing, it is time to decide where to place the landing gear on the landing gear rails and drill the holes for the monting plate.
The placement of the landing gear depends greatly on the location of the landing gear rails, which will absorb the energy from hard landings (they happen you know). In this case, the landing gear will be place over a double ply rib that is reiforced with a bass wood block for extra strength.
With this in mind, I know that the landing gear should be placed somewhere in the vicinity of this location, but I found that the plans did not agree with my actual robart retracts, which meant I needed to create a mock up to simulate what the landing gear would look like and help determine if there was enough clearance to place it where it needed to be.