HI;In regard to the gear location mine is a wreck I got from a fellow and when we rebuilt it moved the gear to just ahead of the original gear,I fly off blacktop but have had no problem with nosing over but after seeing posts re;gear positin did that.Just pulled the Mag 91 out of it and replaced with a Max 60 as needed the Mag.for my Waco 60 don't think that should make much difference except maybe a little lighter better check balance.Alm ost afraid to fly it as the other day we lost 3 planes on apparent hits all went in no control,really scary,next to a military base that is in the process of big excersie for Iraq bound soldiers.All were different channels really felt bad as lost my Phaeton 90 and wrecked a YS 91 too.