Hey Auggie, you can go back and edit your post correcting pans. You'll then be able to reply, "I don't know what you're talking about.".

Funny how that Mach 1 looks just like the unpopular alternative scheme of an Ugly Stik, one of the greatest planes of all time. 99% of them were red with black crosses. Hey, I have an idea, how about building an Ugly Stik with retracts? It makes just about as much sense to me as putting conventional gear with wheel pans on a Dirty Birdy or Tiporare.

If you take a classic car and turn it into a low rider and pimp my ride is it still a classic? I'm a purist and a traditionalist. I prefer to follow the design. Not many people then interested in competition would have considered fixed, conventional gear or converting to a tail dragger on planes designed for tricycle gear and retracts.

However, to each his (or her) own. If an electric foamy can fly a classic pattern circuit, God Speed John Glenn.

Bill