Valin,

 

The USAF studies aside, consider these characteristics of light positions.

 

1. At night, the entire bottom of the airplane is illuminated and becomes very visible from any angle.  This is a great advantage when near an airport. 

 

2. Wing lights do not light up anything but the runway/taxiway, but they can be turned on anytime.

 

3. Leg lights are only on when the gear is extended.

 

Perhaps you could imbed super bright LEDs all over the place.

 

Grayhawk

 

 

Hey LML gang,

 

I’d really like to have our Legacy’s landing lights in the wing, rather than just mounted on the landing gear, for the significant collision avoidance mitigation it provides – according to USAF studies.  The easiest place to put them is in the Legacy’s stub wing section because the shape there is so simple and there’s plenty of space.  The problem I have with that location is that it will be very difficult to do it so cleanly that it doesn’t trip turbulent flow very early along the chord of this laminar flow wing -- with significant drag increase... 

 

So, I’d really like to get our landing lights in the wing tips.  I’ve finally found some nice, low profile HID lights that are small enough to fit in the Legacy’s wing tips.  The biggest challenge is the thermo-forming of the clear acrylic lens with the more complex shape of the wing tips…

 

I really don’t wan’t to add yet another mod development to our Legacy project.  Has anyone else already done this for landing lights in the Legacy’s wing tips?  Does anyone know of a shop with reasonable prices for forming acrylic like this?

 

Thanks,

 

Valin

 

Legacy

Houston, TX USA