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There is a great article in the 8/1/2014 issue called "Fixed Is The New Retractable". It has good information about things like round versus airfoiled landing gears, and a nice bit on oleo struts and trailing link landing gear.

I'm putting RoboStruts on my giant scale P-51 and now I feel even better about that.