dude, Spring Airs are the bomb!! air up, spring down. very well made retracts. and well worth the effort to install tricycle gears. please make sure you want to go with a tail dragger design. nothing is sexier than a pattern plane on tricycle retracts. in fact we might ban you here if you go with a taildragger build[X(]

trust me, everyone prefers tricycle gear here.
david