The land-and seaplane undercarriages were designed to be rapidly interchangeable and shared the same attachment points, though the oleo legs were moved aft for the floats and there were additional bracing struts forward from their feet to the fuselage.
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On the landplanes the landing gear comprised a single wheel on each side of the fuselage, mounted on a vertical coil-spring and oleo leg inboard of the engine; there was a small castoring tailwheel mounted below the rear end of the fuselage.
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The L-17's fuselage was a plywood skinned wooden semi-monocoque, the cockpit seating two side-by-side under a single piece oleo legs mounted to the wings, giving a track of 2.40 m ( 7 ft 10 in ).
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Upward sloping half-axles met centrally under the fuselage at the vertex of a transverse V-strut and, on each side, a faired, long displacement oleo leg and a faired drag strut, both from the lower fuselage longeron, carried the outer end of the axle.
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The undercarriage was intended to be robust enough for rough field operation : long travel oleo legs ran upwards in front of the lower leading edge to the start of the boom, forming a split axle undercarriage bearing large wheels with their centres ( when parked ) not far below the fuselage floor.
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The new seats were accessed via a side door, though the front pair retained the side window route of the earlier aircraft . A trim tab on the elevator replaced the elastic rope balance and the undercarriage was also new, each side having an oleo leg fixed to the lower fuselage longeron and braced at its lower end by a V-form strut, hinged on the fuselage centreline.
