One weakness of the plane designe I noticed was regarding the LG. The gear is quite long and mine pulled off on the third landing. The landing was not a thumper.. just a normal type landing. I did a repair and a little reinforcment . couple of months later the gear and wood pulled away again.. This time I took a better look of things. I ended up making a brace so that when the gear was trying to cantilever rewards the brace prevented from doing so. Essentially the brace stops the rotation of the gear block and the gear stay in place. BobH