Gunny I was looking at the gear setup and have a load question? I don't know how well the struts work and I think they will work well. But I noticed your plywood support stops at the top of the wheel well and doesn't go up to the wing saddle. I was wondering if this would cause the fuselage fiberglas between the top of the wheel strut support and the wing saddle to flex on a hard landing. If the springs are strong enough you won't have a problem If the springs bottom and you get a heavy landing load the fuselage might crack just under the wing saddle.

On my first landing (remember I had to develop the stab, wing incident on my plane) I landed hard. After 2 more landings there was enough flex in the wing to cause the wing sheeting to peel from the foam cores at the wing tip joiner tube.

If I had shock gear like yours it might not have been a problem, and now the incident is correct after 31 flights I can still make a hard landing occasionally. I have the ply strut from the gear all the way up to the wing saddle so the landing loads go from the wheels to the wing and has full support.

Yours may be ok,, just wanted you to look at it while in the building stages.

Happy flying . Jim