I will post for those interested how I'm doing the instalation of a nose wheel retract on my Long EZ 46. I know that this airplane is not available anymore and probably will not be restocked but the retract could be retrofit to a flying airplane no problem. The retract is a Hobbico unit. First few pictures show where I made the first hole in the front bulkhead below the platform that is supposed to hold the receiver battery and the weight for balance.

Should look a little more scale with the retract...Now I had to cut the bottom of the fuselage for the wheel well. I also added some 1/4'' harwood block on the platform to bring the retract flush with the bottom of the fuselage.

On the first picture you can see that I began to build the wheel well with 1/8'' balsa. In the second picture, I added a 1/8'' part of plywood to the top surface of the platform. It doesn't really mather how much weight I add around the nose wheel area since the black weight you see in the second picture is actualy meant to be on that platform for balance. If it become too nose heavy, all I will have to do is remove a chunk of that weight or change it for a lighter one. Since weight is not really a problem, I will add as much reinforcement that I feel is required to the front part of the airplane.

Now a little reinforcement to the front bulkhead since I made some cuts into it and not to mention that I'm adding a lot of epoxy everywhere in that area. As I was looking at the area of the main landing gear to see where it needed more glue, it became obvious to me that the next modification would be to add an air brake like the real thing

You can find the rest of the instalation by following this link.

[link]http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6416046/tm.htm[/link]