flyintexan, I’ve been following your Insight build for the last few months and I think you’ve developed a pretty neat design and a very well engineered airframe. Because of the way you use foam it looks like it would be pretty easy to modify the fuselage shape to the builders taste but not change the wing or tail group.

I’ve been playing around with some ideas of how I might modify the shape and add tri gear retracts. It’s pretty light and it seems like it would be fine with the little bit of extra weight and it would just be for fun flying and not for contest work. Before I order a set of plans do you know how long the main gear struts would need to be with about 2.75” main gear wheels? I can’t tell from the pictures but it looks like the wing is up a little over an inch from the bottom of the fuselage. I wouldn’t want to move the wing position down to shorten the gear legs. I think I would need to side mount the engine to make room for the nose gear. I’ve included a drawing below that shows the idea that thinking about. Haven’t really changed much just a few areas.