this may be a new thing withh this plane my NEXTAR flys well at any speed but mine is almost 3 years old now have crashed her a few times, as all trainers get ,and still flys great .to garywi good luck getting a replacement after mods usually companys will not honor waranty the landing gear is supposed to be a bit flexable to absorb hard landings . after a long flight season my gear broke I just put epoxy at the broken gear section, the plywood had blown up and balanced her out an your ready to go. some have done the tail dragger thing left mine stock and built a different tail dragger instead for the guys that have the newer ones if you can check yours aganst the older models there might be a differance, dont know so far this has been a durable plane and pretty fun to boot I just wish it would stop raining . BTW GO GIANTS!! opening day was today yea!