Posted by tchbnk on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Sky-1-tp1500661p1500685.html

Robert Thomas <[hidden email]>wrote:
> Good question. I have never seen anything in the plans that look
like like landing gear doors, but I would think that they would want
the ability to do both if at all possible.It would have to be some
pretty long "Legs" thought, to clear the booster pods. I don't know
how stable such a design would be, or what its landing charateristics
would be either. Very touchy, I imagine.

Hi Robert,
Thanks for your response.
Watching the bottom side of a Sky 1 sutudio model carefully, we can
find two trapezoid panels along with two rectangular ones just in
front of the 'INTAKE' marking.
I suppose they may suggest that they are doors of a possible nose
landing gear storage.
On the other hand, the Sky fighters might have vertical landing
ability.
In the episode 'Flight Path', we can watch a Sky 1 hoverring above
the scene of the car crush, aboard which Captain Karlin observing the
same accident.

Kaoru