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Soldering Landing Gear

Soldering Landing Gear
While building sport airplanes from kits, often the airplane will have landing gear made from formed and bent music wire that you will have to solder together. For fun-fly airplanes like the Florio Flyer 60, the music wire are a little extra long to provide plenty of ground clearance for the propeller, very important for touch and goes and spot landings. Soldering the gear seems difficult at first but it is very easy if you...

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