ORIGINAL: Heli_Flight
. . . I have a .40 avistar form hobbico so retracts I think are out of the question with my high wing. . .
ORIGINAL: Rendegade
Seems a while back that Pete Goldsmith was messing around with his Carrera and found that an aircraft with fixed gear flew FASTER, and rolled better.
He attributed this to to having less upset airflow over the centre section of the wing as the cutouts were now gone.
Heli_Flight
Heli. I knew a guy who had retracts in a 40 size trainer like the Avistar. Cessna made a version of the 182 that had retracts. The axis of rotation of the main gear made a ''V'' and they folded back into the fuselage.
This inspired me to design a setup for a pattern plane with fuselage mounted retracts that acted the same way. My main reason was that wing mounted gear would require much longer struts. An added advantage would to be to reduce the problem Rendegade mentioned since the wells would show a lower profile to the airflow. Fixed gear became popular about the time I came up with it, and it was never built.
BTW. The 182 RG was MUCH faster than the fixed gear version, and the wells were open.