OK, My turn to go a little off topic here. I got to the long strut thing by thinking of the old navy F4U Corsair. It occured to me that the reason for the inverse gull wing design was to keep the LG struts shorter by lowering the spar at the gear attachment points. But then, we are not slamming our pattern planes to the deck of a moving airstrip.

In the future I just might do that fuselage mounted thing. Why not? I'll probably try MTK's CF tube idea too.