Hey Art I Remember flying that day . I agree it was a brutal crosswind that was very tough on all of us , some of us landed on our wheels , with funcional landing gear. My personal opinion , the landing you had that day did not matter if you had functioning or non functioning gear .. if someone besides you had a hold of the sticks at that particular time , that plane would have had alot more damage ....ALOT ! I have been watching you build this plane , it looks like a nice kit , it looks like it has alot of exta wood . almost overkill . what are you going to do about the extra weight that clearly is being built in ? this to me seems like it is going to be a heavy plane .