Giant Foam A-26 Update: Main Gear Retracts!! 

Wow! What a step up in technology!

Fantastic work, Ben! It's looking more than impressive! 😯 Amazing stuff indeed! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Lookin GREAT !!!!! Waiting to see the nose gear work now. lol (miss you my friend !!!!!)

Watching that gear go up and down has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen today. Thanks for sharing! Thanks for understanding about the delays. Now that we have Toledo behind us and hopefully our family situation figured out, we are back to working on finishing the nacelles this weekend. Shipment incoming next week.... we hope.

Man I dig these big projects. Hope to see you at FF or other events.

So excited to see the progress!!!

Nice piece of design, it looks strong and elegant.

I love your projects brother!

Looks like Kermit Weeks has his full scale A-26 project on track for EAA this year, and has posted some of the restoration vids and things, so it is cool to see this RC one mixed in my subscription page with the full size.

I wonder if you should allow the downlink to go just past center to make sure that in case of a hard impact the downlink cannot snap toward the servo arm given where the hinge point is. If you a little bit of travel left in the servo it would be fairly easy to do by filing an angel on the stop block (to let it go ever so slightly past center) and extending the servo rod to match and hopefully not enough to have to reposition the servo to get full up gear.

Wow really nice Gear construction. What is the size from the A 26?

Gorgeous. Will you incorporate the notorious collapsing nose gear like the original? 😬 There is a RU-vid video of this happening at Oshkosh a couple years ago. Fun to watch, because it is an A-26, sickening watching the sparks flying off the nose.