ORIGINAL: Strykaas
Thank you for your useful comments.
but that may block (drag) a lot of air flow to the prop with the cylinder that close to the wing.
I think I have seen other configurations which featured a 90 deg rotated engine in the same configuration, which was apparently not much of a problem...
For me, It’s a balance thing. I see smooth air over the wing then bam, a corner created by the cylinder and wing. Yes it may mean little but I have the mindset; if it doesn’t look right it probably isn’t, so I just couldn’t make myself do it.
CP, I tend to use allot of glue on joints. but I hate puddles or unnecessary fillets of glue and it came out not too bad weight wise. It flies very light and was quicker than any other similarly powered, non-retract sport plane (like a tiger not a patriot). The main issue holding it back were those three big doughnuts, retracts would have made a ton of difference.