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Recently completed installation and function of main gear. This was a fairly long process, not because of the difficulty level but because of lack of instruction. Now finished I could do in 30 hours what took me 100 hours. I had to make every mistake to get it right. If you are building a kit yourself I hope to provide an easier "How to" on the landing gear so that you go the lesser time to build.

I had a phenomenal experience going to Oshkosh & was thrilled to see the interest, sells & the beaten path in the grass outline of that beauty! Reminded me of the finals @ Wimbledon where the baseline is bare of any grass 🤣 I’m getting so excited about going over for our serial #25 build in Poland 🇵🇱 to be painted as a Red Tail. Thanks to Steve Sliwa for making the fabulous flight out to Oshkosh possible & partnership in #25 Congratulations to Christian & Simon for their awesome showing & the beautiful Thunderbird & Problem Child being made available for the masses to experience heart pains of wanting 🥳

Last week I did my annual training and check flight to renew my permission for low level aerobatic displays.

During the first attempt at installing tail wheel, the mechanism bumped into the bottom of fuselage before fully lowering and the tail wheel was not aligned with fuselage. Shims on both side were installed as a possible fix. This sort of worked but the wheel was still not aligned with the fuselage when lowered. Third attempt was to remove shim from one side and double shim on the opposite side. This solved both problems but bolt was just too short. Still need to improve bolt length issue.

I thought we should all post pictures and text of how we built each part. The plans can't possibly know to mention " when installing the cable make sure...............". I for example did the first part of my wind screen install in 30 hours and the second half of my install in 10 hours. The experience of the first half was very frustrating. Now working on the tail wheel assembly and wish I had a shoulder to cry on. It would be nice to read from a fellow builder what they did with some accompanying photos. How does the emergency cable route through the fuselage. I found out today that you must make an inspection hatch while doing this install. ...............would have been nice....... That's my point, build and share.