Division C rules require that the models must rise off ground (or R.O.G.) at the beginning of each flight. The landing gear is made from .025 wire, and the plan has a full size drawing of the landing gear on it. Locate this portion of the plan. (see below)

Use the needle nose pliers and start bending the wire per the diagram. Start in the lower right corner with the axle, and work your way up to the top of the gear drawing.

When you make the bend at the top, make sure you bend it the same width as the body.

The next thing we need to do is to make a set of wheels. I would make your wheels from 1/16 sheet wood. The rules state that the wheels must be at least 1.5cm in diameter. I chose to go a little bit bigger, and I used a penny for the template.

Take the single edge razor blade and cut around the template to rough shape the circle for the wheels. The next four pictures show the process.

When you are done you will have a rough circle for each wheel.

Use a sanding block or an emery board and smooth out the disks to make the wheels more circular.

Take a pin an poke a hole into the center of each wheel.

For the next step you will need four (4) glass beads. Check to make sure that the landing gear wire will slide inside each of the glass beads easily.

Glue on a glass bead to each side of the wheel over the hole which you made with the pin. You want each bead to be inline with each other so that the wheel will not wobble when it rotates. Be careful not to clog the hole in the glass bead with glue otherwise you will have to start over. I would suggest using a pin with a tiny drop of superglue and slowly glue the bead to the wheel by gluing it multiple times around the diameter of the bead with mini droplets of glue.

Place the wheel on the landing gear axle and check that it rotates freely.

If it does not rotate freely you may have a tiny bit of glue inside the hole going through the wheel or one of the beads may be out of alignment with the other. If the hole is clogged, try pushing a scrap piece of wire through the wheel to open the hole up a little, or if you have it, clean the hole out with a small drill bit. If the wheel wobbles when you rotate it then one of the glass beads needs to be removed and repositioned on the wheel. After you have the wheel spinning free and straight on the axle, then glue one more bead to the end of the axle to prevent the wheel from falling off the model during takeoff.

Do this to both sides and you will have a completed landing gear.

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