You're right, ice...it's not difficult to find a nice place to set her down...and the thing lands wonderfully.

I just felt that continued belly landings would increase the chance of some small hole or rock or twig being in just the wrong place at the wrong time.

As it turns out, I got impatient and just added some gear this afternoon. Found a little set of replacement gear for Hobbyzone aircraft (the larger set of the 2 I saw...not sure which planes they're made for).

A small slot in the bottom of the fuse, a built up block of thin ply on the inside as a mounting block, and an old piee of control rod fashioned into a 'brace' between the two gear legs, and viola...landing gear on an ElectroStreak. Very light weight (mounted them about 2.5" forward of CG, had to move the battery back about 1/2" is all)

Flew her 3 times this evening...there's a touch more drag making big slow loops a bit tougher, but beyond that she flew wonderfully. I didn't notice any significant reduction in speed runs, and it still landed very softly and smoothly. As for the gear themselves, I wanted to test their strength and rigidity, so on the 3rd flight I intentionally bounced the landing 2-3 times, and they held up fine.

I won't say they'll handle any abuse, but given a reasonably decent landing, they should be fine for quite a while.