I've often thought of trying to get the 7 years of GA8 down on paper. Maybe start with the Undercarriage - Peter owned a comanche and I owned a cherokee, so we could agree on the undercarriage - NO OLEOs. The mains he left mostly to me mainly because of the centre carrythrough box and the design goal to have them come off if the aeroplane hit something solid during takeoff, but he and Roly (his father) bent the legs into shape with a comealong and the biggest fire on the end of a gas axe I've ever seen. I thought getting the correct camber would be a bit of hit and miss, but Peter got the angle on the welded axle right first time. To a certain degree it was typical of the aeroplane - everything we thought would be hard was OK - Unfortunately the opposite also applied. At the time of the Duke he must have been flying the P51 both "interesting" aeroplanes.