![]() Over the ensuing years I did what I could to learn about rigging design and maintenance and I ultimately determined that not only could I improve my rigging maintenance, I became convinced that I could also improve its design. ![]() I had never owned (nor even flown) a floatplane prior to this one, so it was all new to me. Glasair installed the floats but I was not involved in that process, so my initial education did not extend into float installation and maintenance. The main gear legs were drilled for both nose dragger and tail dragger configuration and the cables for the water rudders double as steering cables for the tail wheel, so the plane can be flown in all three configurations. I learned a lot about my Carbon Fiber Glasair Sportsman by building it in the factory two-weeks-to-taxi (TWTT) program, where it was initially put on trike gear and then switched to amphibious floats before completing its Phase One Flight Testing. Redesigned struts in the foreground, showing the forward leaning front strut, and a second Sportsman on Clamar floats in the background, showing its (more common) aft leaning front strut.
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