Gentlemen:

I intend to buy this “Blue Nose” P-51, but I would like to hear more about its landing gear.

Other H9 planes are blamed for having a week landing gear.

I have a P-47 and a P-40 and had to replace both landing gears.

My P-47 taxied like a walking duck and the wire struts bended even in soft landings. I replaced them with FTE gear with 3/16 wires. No more probems!

On my P-40 (after waiting for 6 month for a Lado retracts) I replaced them with Century Jet retracts, that doubled the cost of the plane (!!!).

Certainly the 5/32 wires are not strong enough to resist a 9 ~ <metricconverter productid="10 lb">10 lb</metricconverter> plane.

After reading all this thread I could not find many references on the retracts.

So I would like to ask you guys, with flying experience with this plane, how the retracts of this P-51 behave before investing in this kit.

Thank you for your help.

Leonardo