The next major item is the landing gear.

I decided to go with the fixed landing gear for simplicity and more importantly for providing space in fuse for the battery pack. To save weight, a carbon fiber F3A gear set was ordered. It weighs 4oz even. I purchased it from eBay and today I was not able to find it anymore. You have to realize how unstable f3A supplies can be.

Back to business. There are two mounting locations: under the fuse or with the fuse on a deck. The 2nd option was ruled out because the deck would occupy the space needed by the battery pack.

I installed two pieces of 1/4 plywood within the fuse. Each piece has two blind nuts to accept the two mounting screws. A 3mm CF plate was used to accept two more screws to secure the tip side of the gear half. The gear is very strong and I do not have a doubt that it can handle grass runway.

Pic2 shows the new frame to provide further support for the two plywood pieces.