This is a revisit of a thread started last September. Since then I have been working on my Bellanca project (1969 Jim Young's plans)...a trike gear set up. I mostly fly off a stooge and this is my first trike. So, reading the old post I got a kind of idea from Randy Ryan's trike stooge set up. I permanently secured a stooge hook mid line under fuselage aft of nose. This would allow a multi strand wire to be clipped to the hook that would extend aft of the LG and at end of wire a small loop that would engage the stooge pull pin. I use the standard stooge supplied by Brodak. It's a small profile mounted to wood board, secured to ground, would sit under the plane. See photos. I show the photo of Smoothie on stooge just for reference of the stooge device I use. The underside of the Bellanca shows a colored cord to simulate the wire and a loop around a balsa stick to simulate the point where it would engage the stooge pin.
So, big question....will this work?
Jim

might the wire dangling from under the fuse tend to beat up the fuse some?? or did I read it wrong???

I like it Jim, I think it'll work just fine, the only reservation I have it the engine trying to yaw the airplane while its on the stooge, let us know how that works out. I think my future trikes will have sort of a reverse arresting hook that is spring-loaded in the up position so that when its release it "retracts" and doesn't beat up the fuse.

Good input. Maybe instead of a multi strand wire (cable), I'll use a solid wire more securely fixed to the fuselage hook. It would be less prone to swing around. Rather just lay out straight...maybe?

Or maybe a piece of nylon string, check the loops often for fraying.