RE: KMP's New 88.5 Spitfire
I have owned and flown the Platt 1/5 scale, Yellow 1/5 scale, and the Pica 1/5 scale Spitfires and all have been very lady like on the ground with the gear in the scale location. I personally don't see any need for the gear on a Spit this big to be changed from scale but that's just my .02 cents. At most the gear may need to be raked forward slightly more than scale to prevent nose-overs for those guys who fly off of grass. On pavement I never had any nose over problems with any of my Spits.