Dave Dunwoodie Wrote > So the bottom line question is how to align them? With the airplane in > straight and level flight, where should the vertical beam be pointing? > Straight ahead? Down by 6 degrees? Up by 6 degrees? Something like that?
I would sooner retrofit a landing light into the engine cowling. The wheels and pants are unsprung and thus can get shaken up pretty hard on landings. If your stuck with or intent on going with wheel pant lighting, which actually sounds really cool, consider that incandescent bulb filaments will likely have a shortened lifespan, and the added weight of the lighting hardware will put greater loads on the wheel pant mounting points. It would probably do to beef up the wheel pant structure to take the added loads. If it were me I would consider making the lighted nose of the wheel pant removable and the light adjustable, make my best guess at aiming, and then just go fly and see if liked it. Edward Spyker jesj69 "at" yahoo.com ________________________________
