I believe you and I understand the problem (I make planes for fun, so know a little bit about aerodynamics and CG) .. but what I think is that the wings could i

I believe you and I understand the problem (I make planes for fun, so know a little bit about aerodynamics and CG) .. but what I think is that the wings could indeed be mounted to the rocket higher up the frame, over the legs - so when the legs deploy at the bottom, the wings deploy as well over the top - they'd be part of the same leg structure, only extended all the way to the top of the rocket body. Actually they'd need to be rotors, a kind of mini-wing, to spin the rocket body on descent, for drag .. like maple seed wings that flip out in the last stage of the flight envelope. Well of course all this sounds easy, but KISS principles apply I suppose. Still, I could see this happening at some point in the future ..