Hey thanks for checking in John. It is good to hear from you.

I intend to reduce the gap. I just could not stand to look at that huge gap you could drive a semi through. As far as the deeper fuse what I had in mind was more of a flaring of the top curves to fool the eye. Still easy to do or not at this point. I will set the wings and give it the critical eye. I do not want to lose the ring look. I am hoping it instantly say ring to on lookers. That is for me a real challenge to not mess up. Hopefully it will be close enough. Their are so many others so much better than I am.

It would take a bit of effort at this point add dihedral to the bottom wing, but I sure thought about it early on. The little CL bi-plane I built as a teen had some bottom wing dihedral plus a swept back top wing. I wish I had some pics of it. Really sharpens the looks.

I am hoping to scratch build three more bi-planes in the next year or 2. One a scale Pitts. But 2 designs of my own. 1 RC and 1 CL. Are you game for tri motor bi-planes? I have done a fair amount of spreadsheet work on the former. Check out the Boeing model 80.

Ken