Joe Horton wrote: > When ever this comes up it always brings John Schaffer's plane to my mind as what I think is the most successful retract KR. There are several flying pictures from the 2004 Gathering page. By John's own admission it is a lot of extra work just something that he wanted to do and actually completed.
And a there are a lot more on the ground with some closeups of the gear at the 1993 Red Oak gathering at http://www.krnet.org/redoak2003/, near the bottom. There was also a retract gear setup being sold through the newsletters back in the early days. But just FYI Chris, conventional wisdom is that retracts are not worth the trouble, weight, or complexity until you get over 150 mph, assuming you properly fair in fixed gear. This is likely why RVs don't have retracts, and another reason why they are so successful. Don't stack the odds against your completion of the airplane... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
