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craigb(at)onthenet.com.au
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: Landing lights

[quote]   Has anyone fitted in    wing landing lights, other than the wing tip

   mounted type. I have    been considering something like those employed

   on large airliners.    Obviously not that large, but mounted inside the

   wing with    polycarbonate cover, about 1.5 metres from the root,    with

   an access panel    underneath.

    

   craig

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hagargs(at)earthlink.net
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: Landing lights

I made a fairing to  that encased the  outrigger pivot mechanism and extended  foreward.  The light is inside this.  The opposite wing has the same fairing without the light.    

  

 Steve Hagar

 A143

 Mesa, AZ

  

 

  

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RobNeils(at)Q.com
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject: Landing Lights

Best Wishes to all for a New Year!



Attached is a front view of my landing lights embedded into the front of 

my main gear fairing. 



I operate out of a grass strip, have 250 hours on the tach, and have had 

no problem with the landing lights taking the landing vibration - what 

little there is, of course -  since the motorglider alights as gently as 

a feather!

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Fergus Kyle

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 291
Location: Burlington ON Canada

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: Landing lights

My machine is early Classic with foam wings. I don’t have these planned immediately but expect to install same later.  

                However, I don’t contemplate breaking any skin on the wings, particularly in the inner half of the wing leading edge for structural reasons. Rather I will consider the tip area because of its lesser stress site and the ease of adding perhaps a retractable module easily built in. Of course it might be impossible if no plan was to add another electric route to the tip(s). Another reason is that heavier wiring is not vital if the time ON is kept very short.  

                Recent advances have made it more practical with newer light sources. All my $.02.  

Cheers for 2009  

Ferg  

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Trevpond(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:57 am Post subject: Landing Lights

Hi Rob,

  

 Where did you get your fairings and spats?

  

 regards

  

  

  

  

 Trev Pond

 G-LINN

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budyerly(at)msn.com
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: Landing lights

<?xml:namespace prefix="v" /><?xml:namespace prefix="o" /><![endif]-->  Craig,

 Why not make a nice looking teardrop for the aileron inspection plate and  use a 55 watt halogen driving light nicely faired in.  I've done it  once with a Whelen recognition light and once with a $15 Walmart driving light  set, and both work fine.  Of course you must not have the wires interfere  with the controls.  I've seen guys put it in the mono and trigear outboard  fairings, and if you like to spend hours, cut the leading edge and put in a  classical styled headlight in the leading edge.  That's if you want to  spend another 100 hours making it perfect, sealed on the Leading Edge, vented  and maintainable.

  

 On my website I have a picture of one in the cowl, and mine is in a  modified flap hinge cover under the fuselage using a standard 55 watt halogen  driving light.  I chose under the fuselage because there are mounting bolts  already built in to the flap hinge bracket, and it just takes a little foam and  clay to make a nice looking fairing to go over the bulb assembly and  bracket.  Then remove and dissolve the foam, clean it up, run a wire or two  and be done with it... 

  

 Where ever you mount it, think of serviceability and vibration.

 A lot of choices

  

 Bud Yerly

 Custom Flight Creations

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RobNeils(at)Q.com
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:48 am Post subject: Landing Lights

Trev,

  

 Because N128HW ( 2I, too, ate Hotel Whiskey!) is a motorglider I took  special precautions to decrease drag as much as possible.

  

 I looked everywhere for the best gear leg to wheel fairing and found  nothing - not on the web and not at airshows.

  

 After cogitating, scratching head, drinking beer and facing East, the muses  wre enticed and they spoke,  2Make the gear leg bell-bottomed. 2  Thus  evolved a simple solution to getting a low-friction but high-strength  intersection.  The bell-bottomed shape at the end of the gear makes it  very easy to afix the wheel fairing.  Afix blue foam to the bottom of the  gearleg and shape the beel-bottom.  Having previously built or bought the  fairing, use double-sided tape to stick sandpaper to the fairing where it will  connect to the bellbottom.  Rub the fairing agains the bottom of the blue  foam to get an exact contour.  Fibberglass the bellbottom and cut it to a  pleasing shape.  Carve out or dissolve the blue foam. 

  

 Drill through the bell-bottom into the fairing to make screw  hole.  Afix nutplate to the inside of the wheelfairing wherever there's a  screw hole.  This set-up makes it easy to afix and disassemble the  wheel fairing from the gear leg.

  

 To get a smooth transition afix duct tape around the edge of the  bell-bottom.  Slather dry miro onto the wheel fairing /  bellbottom joint. Let cure long enough to carefully cut arround the  bellbottom with a razon blade so you can release the fairing from the  bellbottom.  Allow to cure completely.  Sand down the edges  as needed.

  

 P.S. The landing lights are fully aim-able.

  

 Rob   

  

  

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Trevpond(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:59 am Post subject: Landing Lights

thank's for that Rob.

  

  

 regards

  

  

  

 Trev

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karelvranken(at)hotmail.c
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: Landing Lights

Rob,

 Do you have some pic's?

 Best regards and happy new year.

 Karel Vranken.

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kheindl(at)msn.com
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:24 am Post subject: Landing Lights

 

 Rob C

  

 Where did you get the wheel pants. I assume they are not from Europa and are one piece ?

  

 Karl

 





  From: RobNeils(at)Q.com

To: europa-list(at)matronics.com

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Landing Lights

Date: Sat C 3 Jan 2009 05:47:14 -0800



    Trev C

  

 Because N128HW ("I C too C ate Hotel Whiskey!) is a motorglider I took special precautions to decrease drag as much as possible.

  

 I looked everywhere for the best gear leg to wheel fairing and found nothing - not on the web and not at airshows.

  

 After cogitating C scratching head C drinking beer and facing East C the muses wre enticed and they spoke C "Make the gear leg bell-bottomed."  Thus evolved a simple solution to getting a low-friction but high-strength intersection.  The bell-bottomed shape at the end of the gear makes it very easy to afix the wheel fairing.  Afix blue foam to the bottom of the gearleg and shape the beel-bottom.  Having previously built or bought the fairing C use double-sided tape to stick sandpaper to the fairing where it will connect to the bellbottom.  Rub the fairing agains the bottom of the blue foam to get an exact contour.  Fibberglass the bellbottom and cut it to a pleasing shape.  Carve out or dissolve the blue foam. 

  

 Drill through the bell-bottom into the fairing to make screw hole.  Afix nutplate to the inside of the wheelfairing wherever there's a screw hole.  This set-up makes it easy to afix and disassemble the wheel fairing from the gear leg.

  

 To get a smooth transition afix duct tape around the edge of the bell-bottom.  Slather dry miro onto the wheel fairing / bellbottom joint. Let cure long enough to carefully cut arround the bellbottom with a razon blade so you can release the fairing from the bellbottom.  Allow to cure completely.  Sand down the edges as needed.

  

 P.S. The landing lights are fully aim-able.

  

 Rob   

  

  

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