Obviously not your first landing gear party . Attention to detail and precision is a testament to your great building skills . Thanks for letting us watch you at work Chris. Great video.
This is a fantastic bit of engineering and also solves a life-long mystery for me. I’ve always loved airplanes, and even as a little kid I was fascinated by retractable landing gear. A model airplane was not as interesting to me without it. But I had a book with pictures of the B-58 and for the life of me I could not figure out how that long gear got into such short doors. _Every_ time I would see those pictures it would puzzle me, especially the nose gear! After 50+ years of wondering, I can now have some peace. 😅 Subscribing to see further progress. It already looks amazing!
When I did my PPL and subsequent flying at Meacham Field, Fort Worth in 1988/89, there was a B58 parked at the Best Western....what a "Beast". Looking forward to the flight report
It takes a lot to impress me.. however I am now convinced that we're related!! I've been using spider wire and springs for similar applications ! Thank you for sharing the journey of the build!! Outstanding!!
Great work Chris.. I learn a lot from watching you.. You remind me of a R/C builder called B1 Bob.. He was building a B-1 bomber when he left CZcams.. I learned from him too.. You give me a lot of good work tips.. Thanks Chris.. Waiting to see more...
Builder Bob flies at my field out here in the midwest and i get to see some of his creations in person. The guy is a building genious. I, unfortunatly, never got to see that b1. Only been seeing him flying giant scale gasser warbirds the last two years.
Oh yeah I see a lot of JHH and your Dad's trickery mixed with you high tech skills and equipment. Well done Chris. I love that you design a way to maintain your jet. Takes extra thought and time ti figure that stuff out so your not boxed into a corner. Miss flying with you out west.
What amazes me is how quickly we as a people progressed from the Wright brothers flier that was basically a motorized kite, to building aircraft like the B-58 within 60 years!
@@Thercgeek You have more patience than me. Nothing makes me madder than when the gear doors cause the gear to amp out and get stuck. I usually end up just taking them off
Suggest using torsion bar springs instead of coil springs. They take up a lot less room and can also serve as a piano style hinge pin. I've used them with much success on a couple of my projects with retracts. Great attention to detail on your B-58 project and hope to see it fly soon!
@@Thercgeek You're welcome sir. These sort of complicated convoluted designs is art in engineering itself and testimony to the genius of aircraft designers in solving problems. Other complex landing gears include for the Lockheed C5 Galaxy (where the landing gear twists 90 degrees) and the MiG-23 Flogger. The wing fold mechanisms of the WWII Grumman "cat" series are also good examples. With best regards from Malaysia!
"Hey watchya doing?" Ahhh, just sawing these doors in half. "Using a jig, or a brace?" Nah, just sawing on top of the plane.😅 😬 Looking forward to the big finish reveal, and first flights. Love the Hustler.
I’m not sure if we’ll be able to get it available as a wide release truthfully. My friend has been doing a small limited run of kits, but It’s quite labor intensive to make.
Chris you got me thinking about the Hustler. It really is just the f16 cranking in a larger version. Also general dynamics must like complicated landing gear....lol. keep up the nice work
The Hustler has always been one of my favorite early jet warbirds and is one I'd love to see as a larger scale turbine RC plane, I'm imagining it with 4x Swiwin-300P's for power LMAO. The landing gear is freaking insane although it's probably less complex than the gear on a BUFF
This is amazing! I hope i can get to this level of build quality and patients for that matter😅. Looking forward to your next vid in these master builders classes.
Freakin' awesome. After seeing the real B-58 in a museum, I've been wondering how the retracts worked on the plane. This is great, thank you for sharing.
I hope your CG calculation works out right. I once built a scratch built speed 400 delta and despite reading everything I could find about CG on delta wings for the first flight the CG was 2 or 3 inches rearward and the plane was unflyable . Hand launch of course so the result was a back flip to the ground. I redid the fuselage so I could move the batt forward and made a new styrofoam nose and managed to fly the plane on the second attempt. It was a blast to fly and with its solid balsa wing and 1/4 x1/2” hard balsa keel running the full length of the underside of the wing it was indestructible except for the styrofoam nose and sheet balsa foward fuselage. I had it set up with dual rates. High rate for the launch and then once the plane was up to speed low rates with lots of expo. The first 50’ after the toss were hairy leading to me naming the plane the Hairy Delta. Remember, when you start cranking and banking deltas bleed off speed quickly!
A cool maneuver I used to do I called the elevator. I would pull back the power and as the plane slowed I would keep adding up elevator. The plane would develop a dramatic sink rate while remaining flat and controllable. Add power and / or drop the nose and the recovery to normal flight was instantaneous. Just don’t get too low when first trying this !
Yeah, deltas can be a lot of fun. With the vortex enhanced lift you get, they can fly incredibly slow and remain stable throughout. 😊 don’t think I’ll be doing much of that with this bird, but the nose high landing should be pretty awesome!
Great video man great work can’t wait to see her fly for the first time soon. The fact that you’re doing a B 58 hustler it’s awesome. I think one of my favorite things about that plane was how the gears would retract into the airplane on takeoff and landing, I will definitely or personally if I get time off to come see her fly for the first time I will try my best. Keep up the good work awesome to see you’re coming along smoothly.
Any chance some day you could do a video on building scale retracts from scratch...? I have my ideas but would love to see how a seasoned pro would approach it.
The B58 is the most beautiful airplane in the world. This is Awesome. Have you done some gear cycles with the aircraft "right side up" since it was all assembled on its back? ..and with perhaps a leaf blower on the assemblies for some simulated airflow.? Its a pretty complex system... the strings fluttering in the airlfow.
I bet your brain cracked a few bags of nuts to get this project underway. Is your mother's name Necessity or Invention?? ;-) kidding. Great hands Chris, excellent craftsmanship. The doors staying up close and tight is spot on. AirHammer out!!
That's great work ! The only thing that bothers me with those electric retracts is the noise they make... I know that once in flight you don't ear that noise but it still bothers me 😂... Air retracts are unfortunately unreliable...
Haha, I hear you on the sound. My experience has been that Air are just as good if not better than electric. Most of my large scale stuff I opt for air, but these were designed electric from the start.
hey RC Geek, thanks for the video! Quick Question, do you think you'd ever work on an F-111 Aardvark? It's one of those models you dont see around much, and with how the Hustler is looking I think you might be qualified! Keep up the good work!
Hi, awesome project! Would you tell me what is the white glue you used to mount the steering servo box? Also what is the spray I see you putting on the CA glue? Thanks!!!
I loved the video! I’m curious, you built a wooden tray for the nose gear steering servo instead of 3D printing one, is there a reason you went with the wood? Also can you still access to remove that servo if needed? Masterful work, cheers! Also, it’ll be nice to see you win the scale NATS. 😉
Thanks! I made the wood tray for the steering mostly because it was quicker. Plus, the steering takes more load than the doors, so the wood will hold up better over time in that case.
Nice job. Is it a kit? Is it a one-off 3D print? One of the most iconic aircraft ever built. It's been on my bucket list of builds for quite some time. Instead, I've settled on the XB-51 Panther. A word of advice, make sure you keep the speed going into turns with that thing. Those honkin nacelles and a delta wing, will drag it straight to a smokin hole if you do not. Liked and subbed... PS did you droop the leading-edge down like the real aircraft? Convair did this on the Delta Dagger and the Delta Dart
Thanks! The airframe was tooled up by a good friend of mine so was fortunate enough to get one from him. The wing does indeed feature the conical camber along the leading edge.
What keeps the wire in the hinge in the main doors? Just curious as it seems like it wouldn't take much for it to slip forward far enough to come out of the small rear piece attached to the fuselage?
There’s a decent amount of friction there, so the wire won’t slip out at all. It would require quite a bit of suction for it to pull forward. That being said, I may still use a small piece of aluminum tape at the front just to be sure.
@@Thercgeek I was just thinking of vibration and movement. I have no doubt in your abilities, was just wondering as you simply slid it out repeatedly. Thanks for the reply, as always.
You could save gear servo weight by pulling a old real life fighter pilot trick when you have damaged gear motors and roll the plane inverted after take off and let gravity retract the gear. 😁
Could be worse. The air-data computer was a mechanical analog computer. A complex arrangement of gears, levers, cams, bellows, integrators, over 1,000 parts in all. All in a space the size of a matchbox. Good luck with that!
Obviously not your first landing gear party . Attention to detail and precision is a testament to your great building skills . Thanks for letting us watch you at work Chris. Great video.
Wow, thanks!
Landing gear always makes or breaks a scale model. Top notch effort. Strong work!
Very true, thank you!
This is a fantastic bit of engineering and also solves a life-long mystery for me. I’ve always loved airplanes, and even as a little kid I was fascinated by retractable landing gear. A model airplane was not as interesting to me without it. But I had a book with pictures of the B-58 and for the life of me I could not figure out how that long gear got into such short doors. _Every_ time I would see those pictures it would puzzle me, especially the nose gear! After 50+ years of wondering, I can now have some peace. 😅 Subscribing to see further progress. It already looks amazing!
Thank you!
Those retracts are ridiculous Chris! Beautiful work on the doors as well.
Thanks 👍
The landing gears and doors are a work of art.
I was holding my breath watching the nose gear close. Wow, very satisfying.👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
So complex! Well done
Thank you!
The retract doors are brilliant.
Thank you!
Fantastic result 👏👏👏
Thank you! 😊
How.... ?!?! Amazing design, engineering, 3D printing and assembly. Brilliant!
Chris dude that's so cool. Y'all are doing a great job❤
Thanks so much!!
When I did my PPL and subsequent flying at Meacham Field, Fort Worth in 1988/89, there was a B58 parked at the Best Western....what a "Beast". Looking forward to the flight report
Amazing engineering on the retracts
RCCrafters does incredible work!
Chris ,,Man all I can say is WOW !! Grate job Bro !!!
Thank you!
Wow! Impressive how the main gears actuates. 👍👍👍
You are loved!
CHRIS, YOU ARE DA MAN!!! 😮😮❤❤❤❤❤
It takes a lot to impress me.. however I am now convinced that we're related!! I've been using spider wire and springs for similar applications ! Thank you for sharing the journey of the build!! Outstanding!!
Thank you!
Chris. Sure has been a pleasure watching you create such a masterpiece. Getting more exciting by the minute. 👊👋😊
You clever son of a B! That hinge idea on the main doors is incredible! Definitely going to borrow that idea down the road.
Awesome! 😊
Holy moly, Chris! And here I was thinking the landing gear on the SLUF was complex.... Well done!
Thanks!
Great work Chris.. I learn a lot from watching you.. You remind me of a R/C builder called B1 Bob.. He was building a B-1 bomber when he left CZcams.. I learned from him too.. You give me a lot of good work tips.. Thanks Chris.. Waiting to see more...
Builder Bob flies at my field out here in the midwest and i get to see some of his creations in person. The guy is a building genious. I, unfortunatly, never got to see that b1. Only been seeing him flying giant scale gasser warbirds the last two years.
Amazing great job i wish I had that much patients!!!
Thank you!
Clean and reliable. I like it! This is going to be an impressive airplane.
Hope so!
Excellent work Chris ! Necessity is the mother of invention.
You got that right!
Oh yeah I see a lot of JHH and your Dad's trickery mixed with you high tech skills and equipment. Well done Chris. I love that you design a way to maintain your jet. Takes extra thought and time ti figure that stuff out so your not boxed into a corner. Miss flying with you out west.
What amazes me is how quickly we as a people progressed from the Wright brothers flier that was basically a motorized kite, to building aircraft like the B-58 within 60 years!
It really is remarkable to think about!
Well done, Chris. I suspect even Ramy RC would be impressed lol. Now...I wanna see this puppy fly!
Thank you!
This was so much fun to watch. Nice work. I’m sure that took a long time
Thank you! It took quite a while, yes, haha! Took multiple iterations to get everything right on both the nose and mains.
@@Thercgeek You have more patience than me. Nothing makes me madder than when the gear doors cause the gear to amp out and get stuck. I usually end up just taking them off
Suggest using torsion bar springs instead of coil springs. They take up a lot less room and can also serve as a piano style hinge pin. I've used them with much success on a couple of my projects with retracts. Great attention to detail on your B-58 project and hope to see it fly soon!
now that's slick ! nice... 😎
Awesome work Chris!
Thanks man!
Tell me Chris; are YOU from this Planet? Time after time YOU AMAZE all the rest of us.
Greetings from Finland!
Thank you so much!
Looks awesome! Landing gear is off the chain. The judges are gonna love it!
Amazing gear and door setup!
Beautiful work of art!!! Engineering beauty in action.
Thank you very much!
@@Thercgeek You're welcome sir. These sort of complicated convoluted designs is art in engineering itself and testimony to the genius of aircraft designers in solving problems. Other complex landing gears include for the Lockheed C5 Galaxy (where the landing gear twists 90 degrees) and the MiG-23 Flogger. The wing fold mechanisms of the WWII Grumman "cat" series are also good examples. With best regards from Malaysia!
Simply amazing!!!
Brilliant work..👍
Thanks a lot 😊
Wow that came out great very nice 👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice work Chris 😊 but get it done 👊
Working on it! 😊
Wow, unreal, just freakin amazing!
Thank you so much!
"Hey watchya doing?"
Ahhh, just sawing these doors in half.
"Using a jig, or a brace?"
Nah, just sawing on top of the plane.😅
😬
Looking forward to the big finish reveal, and first flights. Love the Hustler.
Hey, whatever works 🤣
That’s super duper cool!!! Can’t wait for the next video 😊
Thank you 🤗
You're inspiring!
Wow, thank you!
Excellent work on the entire gear assembly! This is one of my most favorite aircraft!
Thank you! I love the hustler as well. Such an iconic and wicked looking aircraft. 😊
I was wondering. Will you produce this model for the consumer market?
I’m not sure if we’ll be able to get it available as a wide release truthfully. My friend has been doing a small limited run of kits, but It’s quite labor intensive to make.
Chris you got me thinking about the Hustler. It really is just the f16 cranking in a larger version. Also general dynamics must like complicated landing gear....lol. keep up the nice work
nice work Chris !!
Thank you!
Well impressive Chris, great model engineering 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks! 😊
AWESOME...!!!😎😎👍👍🙏🙏
The Hustler has always been one of my favorite early jet warbirds and is one I'd love to see as a larger scale turbine RC plane, I'm imagining it with 4x Swiwin-300P's for power LMAO. The landing gear is freaking insane although it's probably less complex than the gear on a BUFF
I happen to know of a big multi turning hustler that’s in the works currently. It’s going to be massive in size.
That is incredible work
Thank you!
Very impressive! A work of art! 👍🙋♂️🖖🏻
Thank you very much!
This is amazing! I hope i can get to this level of build quality and patients for that matter😅. Looking forward to your next vid in these master builders classes.
Thank you! The next vid in the series should post this Friday! 😊
Beautiful work on the landing gear. This jet gets more amazing everytime I see it. Great 👍🏻 job geek 🤓
Thank you!
Freakin' awesome. After seeing the real B-58 in a museum, I've been wondering how the retracts worked on the plane. This is great, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching! 😊
Awesome work and craftsmanship as always CHRIS!!! Can’t wait to see this jet finished, thanks for sharing 👊🏼👊🏼
Thanks man!
Awesome landing gear build
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice clean work. Looks amazing.
Thank you!
Kudos to the designers of the original gear ,all done on 2d blueprints.
Condolences to the ground crews who had to rig that rube goldberg setup.
LOL
In the later 90s one of my RC buds was ex-air force and was a 3rd seater in B58s and later EWO in other types
Very cool!
Wow!!...Those landing gear are so complex..,well done Chris.
Can’t wait to see this iconic bird fly again👌
Thanks 😊
Man , You do not need to fly it , just show folks the gear !!!!! Will it have an ejection Pod ? LOL
Yep, i have the pod waiting it’s turn to be mounted.
I hope your CG calculation works out right. I once built a scratch built speed 400 delta and despite reading everything I could find about CG on delta wings for the first flight the CG was 2 or 3 inches rearward and the plane was unflyable . Hand launch of course so the result was a back flip to the ground. I redid the fuselage so I could move the batt forward and made a new styrofoam nose and managed to fly the plane on the second attempt. It was a blast to fly and with its solid balsa wing and 1/4 x1/2” hard balsa keel running the full length of the underside of the wing it was indestructible except for the styrofoam nose and sheet balsa foward fuselage. I had it set up with dual rates. High rate for the launch and then once the plane was up to speed low rates with lots of expo. The first 50’ after the toss were hairy leading to me naming the plane the Hairy Delta. Remember, when you start cranking and banking deltas bleed off speed quickly!
A cool maneuver I used to do I called the elevator. I would pull back the power and as the plane slowed I would keep adding up elevator. The plane would develop a dramatic sink rate while remaining flat and controllable. Add power and / or drop the nose and the recovery to normal flight was instantaneous. Just don’t get too low when first trying this !
Yeah, deltas can be a lot of fun. With the vortex enhanced lift you get, they can fly incredibly slow and remain stable throughout. 😊 don’t think I’ll be doing much of that with this bird, but the nose high landing should be pretty awesome!
Cool
If you have too much slack in the pull/pull. Use the zip tie trick.. 1 zip tie and some shrink tubing
holy!!!!!! wow!
great job , bravo
Many thanks!
A W E S O M E ! beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video man great work can’t wait to see her fly for the first time soon. The fact that you’re doing a B 58 hustler it’s awesome. I think one of my favorite things about that plane was how the gears would retract into the airplane on takeoff and landing, I will definitely or personally if I get time off to come see her fly for the first time I will try my best. Keep up the good work awesome to see you’re coming along smoothly.
Thanks man! Not sure where the maiden will be just yet. I’m scoping out sites with a bit more space for when that time comes.
Nice work Chris !
Thank you! Cheers!
Any chance some day you could do a video on building scale retracts from scratch...? I have my ideas but would love to see how a seasoned pro would approach it.
Honestly, landing gear I will typically collaborate with RCCrafters on. I don’t have matching capability and he does incredible work!
@@Thercgeek Ok Thanks..!
Very clean well done job
Thank you! 😊
@@Thercgeek you're welcome
Amazing.
Thank you! Cheers!
Good job!
Thank you!
The Delta Dart is a fascinating plane and you’ve done an impressive job on it!👍🏻
Delta dart? Where?
Super cool! You never cease to amaze!
Nice!
Amazing job !!!!
Very very talented!! Too bad it didn’t survive though ..
Yeah, that was a very tough lesson. But, that will ensure success of the next one. 😊
Awesome Build, the next one ...enlarge it for 4 14 to 18 Lbt turbines 😎 JOB well done looks great
The B58 is the most beautiful airplane in the world. This is Awesome. Have you done some gear cycles with the aircraft "right side up" since it was all assembled on its back? ..and with perhaps a leaf blower on the assemblies for some simulated airflow.? Its a pretty complex system... the strings fluttering in the airlfow.
I have exercised the gear upright and all good. I may put a leaf blower to it at some point, but haven’t this far to test the gear with.
I bet your brain cracked a few bags of nuts to get this project underway. Is your mother's name Necessity or Invention?? ;-) kidding.
Great hands Chris, excellent craftsmanship. The doors staying up close and tight is spot on.
AirHammer out!!
Thanks man! Getting this all figured out kicked my butt a few times, haha!
XB-70 incoming!
That's great work ! The only thing that bothers me with those electric retracts is the noise they make... I know that once in flight you don't ear that noise but it still bothers me 😂... Air retracts are unfortunately unreliable...
Haha, I hear you on the sound. My experience has been that Air are just as good if not better than electric. Most of my large scale stuff I opt for air, but these were designed electric from the start.
I agree, air works well. The low dollar electric gear are a crap shoot if they work or not. The most expensive gear are a bit more reliable.
hey RC Geek, thanks for the video! Quick Question, do you think you'd ever work on an F-111 Aardvark? It's one of those models you dont see around much, and with how the Hustler is looking I think you might be qualified! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching! I do like the F-111, it’s a good looking bird and would be a really cool subject.
What material is that for the plane?
The model is all hollow molded composite.
simply amazing, really enjoying it. Whats the white adhesive that you spread on with the putty knife?
Thank you! The adhesive is epoxy with white micro balloons to lighten and volumize it.
Hi, awesome project! Would you tell me what is the white glue you used to mount the steering servo box? Also what is the spray I see you putting on the CA glue? Thanks!!!
Thanks! The white adhesive is just epoxy with micro balloons to lighten and volumize it. The spray on the ca is simply ca accelerator.
Chris, what is the white adhesive (applied with small spatula) that you use throughout this video?
That is epoxy with micro balloons. The micro balloons is what turns it white and helps lighten and volumize the epoxy.
I loved the video! I’m curious, you built a wooden tray for the nose gear steering servo instead of 3D printing one, is there a reason you went with the wood? Also can you still access to remove that servo if needed? Masterful work, cheers!
Also, it’ll be nice to see you win the scale NATS. 😉
Thanks! I made the wood tray for the steering mostly because it was quicker. Plus, the steering takes more load than the doors, so the wood will hold up better over time in that case.
Did you use microballoons in that white epoxy?
Yes, the white is the micro balloons.
Nice job. Is it a kit? Is it a one-off 3D print? One of the most iconic aircraft ever built. It's been on my bucket list of builds for quite some time. Instead, I've settled on the XB-51 Panther.
A word of advice, make sure you keep the speed going into turns with that thing. Those honkin nacelles and a delta wing, will drag it straight to a smokin hole if you do not. Liked and subbed...
PS did you droop the leading-edge down like the real aircraft? Convair did this on the Delta Dagger and the Delta Dart
Thanks! The airframe was tooled up by a good friend of mine so was fortunate enough to get one from him. The wing does indeed feature the conical camber along the leading edge.
What keeps the wire in the hinge in the main doors? Just curious as it seems like it wouldn't take much for it to slip forward far enough to come out of the small rear piece attached to the fuselage?
There’s a decent amount of friction there, so the wire won’t slip out at all. It would require quite a bit of suction for it to pull forward. That being said, I may still use a small piece of aluminum tape at the front just to be sure.
@@Thercgeek I was just thinking of vibration and movement. I have no doubt in your abilities, was just wondering as you simply slid it out repeatedly. Thanks for the reply, as always.
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Big thanks
How did you make? or where did you get the drag chute?? Ps cant wait to see and hear 👂 it fly!!
There’s a link in the description, but The drag chute came from rcjetchutes.com
You could save gear servo weight by pulling a old real life fighter pilot trick when you have damaged gear motors and roll the plane inverted after take off and let gravity retract the gear. 😁
Haha, I too like to live dangerously! 🤣
Could be worse. The air-data computer was a mechanical analog computer. A complex arrangement of gears, levers, cams, bellows, integrators, over 1,000 parts in all. All in a space the size of a matchbox. Good luck with that!
Nice work i am just wondering is de angel of the rear wheels correct
They are correct. 😊
Incredible work 👍 Any plans for paint scheme?
Thank you! I’m planning to paint it up in the prototype scheme tail number 5660.
Amazing video bro i m imdia 🇮🇳 youtuber ❤
Thank you so much 😀
As complex as the landing gear is it was remarkably trouble free and not a maintenance hog.