My first thoughts were Spring Air Retracts. But now I'm leaning toward mechanical retracts. I know they seem to be weaker than some air retracts but I don't like all that air tubing, tanks, valves, and a servo - too much junk to put into the plane.

While we are on the subject of retracts, since I will be using mechanical retracts, has anyone got any experience with servo speed reducers. I saw one for around $10.00 (Dionysus Design). It will slow down the serovo rate to about 2 seconds end-to-end.

Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

BTW, I have added a Staggerwing section to the Photo Gallery on the iFLYrc web site ( http://iflyrc.hypermart.net ). Got quite a few photos from lot's of staggerwing modelers. If you would like to have your model included (on the bench or finished), send me an email.