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How To: Add retractable landing lights

The operating, retractable landing lights on my Beechcraft Staggerwing, built from Nick Ziroli Plans, are the perfect finishing scale touch. I have installed the same lights on a P-47, and they can be modified and applied to almost any World War II aircraft. The exact lights that I used for this aircraft are now only available from Europe, but I’ve found that they can be easily adapted from a number of high-intensity LED lights that...

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