I have found a copy of MAN Mar 1983 on Ebay, That issue is real hard to find, prospective builders must hoard it. I now will have 2 copies of Feb 83, the aircraft construction article, and soon will have the one detailing, I hope, the gear. I have an unbuilt Tamiya plastic kit for the Wildcat along with a Monogram kit of the Curtiss F3F-3 which actually has operating retracts that are similar, you turn the prop and the gear retracts! As soon as I get the article I will start making a mock up of wood so I can get my head around how it all operates. A friend of mine did some work on the Wildcat that is on the carrier Hornet at the Alameda Air Station in CA, a floating museum, seems the gear was slowly collapsing due to the weight and missing componets, it was on the bottom of Lake Michigan for several years. I will post a link of some photographs of that plane in my next post, good pics of the gear. What I would like to see is a video of the gear going up and down, that would be a great help. Maybe the poster that works on "AIR BISCUIT", the Wildcat in Hayward might have some video? I love that particular airplane, I crewed the RARE BEAR for awhile and met a few of you guys that crew the plane. I am a retired A&P and was part of the AA bunch that took the Bear over one year. Buttload of work.......... If I cannot build the gear, I will do the WildCatfish, the Navy gave one to EDO in 1942 and had it put on floats for testing, had to ad 2 more small vertical fins and I guess it flew like a truck, so only 1 was made, but they did make 100 sets of floats for them. Float close up pics are impossible to find. My club flies floatplanes every week at Boca Lake by Truckee CA, so new and interesting floatplanes are popping up all the time. I also have plans, a cowl and canopy for the EDO OSE-1, centerline Ranger type engine powered fighter akin to a Hellcat. I will make available copies of the MAN articles if any body wants them, just let me know.