Landing gear question

[sloth]

I like strapping space planes to a big rocket and launching it at something.

Sometimes, landing gear is a nuissance in this case.

1) Is there a way to make a copy of the current landing gear and cfg edit it to start retracted?

2) Is there a way to separate landing gear hotkey from landing legs hotkey? On crafts that have both I would very much like individual control.

(3) Are there already mods that do this that I just didnt find?)

[The Stinger]

As far as I know you can only achieve this by reversing the animation.

[pvtawol]

The Tyberdyne Shuttle pack has retracted Landing Gear, but it still uses the 'G' Key to raise/lower.

LINKAGE: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/4116-0-17-TiberDyne-Aerospace-R-D-Division-Shuttle-System-Version-3-0%21-Sept-20th