There is sexy....and then there is efficient. Your design is sexy...but not efficient. If the point of landing gear is to stop a landing and hold the bird up off the ground and get clearance for a gimbal and camera..AND be lightest possible weight....then there is really only one possible design. The shortest distance (i.e. least amount of material = least weight) between two points (bottom of Phantom and ground) is a straight line. That says.....straight stick legs will be lightest for whatever material used. And actually a tripod design would work and save 25% on weight. The current stock design of a flat bottom bar is quite wasteful weight-wise, unnecessary for purposes of holding up the bird, and VERY unstable when landing on uneven ground....which I do a lot. Bird often tips as I power down and can chip (or worse) a carbon fiber prop. It DOES provide some real sturdy protection in a cage-like fashion to the gimbal and camera which for a new flyer is probably it's justification.
SO I am looking for the straight stick legs...which will be lightest, but not sexy.
It also occurs to me that, given many have a gimbal with a controllable tilt servo function, there is the potential for RETRACTABLE (actually...folding) legs that would come up flat to the bottom using the servo tilt endpoint as the mechanism...i.e. moving to tilt-end-point-up (or down) would drop the legs. Now THAT would be sexy, get the legs out of the way of the camera to allow 3D servo use, and would improve aerodynamics. The downside is that the camera and gimbal would be hanging there naked and vulnerable.
Sexy....efficient.....sexy.....efficient.......Oh my!
