Bill,

The plane is nothing like a Racer II, except The Martin does have a pure MH-18B wing on it. The Smasher has a pure NACA 66-012 on it (fully symmetrical), at least for the time being.

Both are based on a design I created a year ago based on the Lancair 320/IV/Columbia and the Cirrus SR20 and SR22. The V-tail placement is higher than any of your planes I've seen and is based on the Beech Bonanza V-35 tail placement relative to the thrust line. The fuselage design was tested using Martin Hepperle's airfoil tools and is aerodynamically sound for the Reynolds numbers for the speed range of 150-200 mph. Considering that the fuselage accounts for 75% of the drag in straight and level flight for a Q-500, I am proud of the design. It took a lot of work. Some will say it looks like a Neme-Q, however, it is significantly different, especially aerodynamically.

The tail is bolted on like a Neme-Q and the Texas Consortium Q-500 (aka the Wreaked'em). The tail is in the 69 square inch area, which is a little larger than most Quickies other than the Neme-Q at 76.

I compiled a spreadsheet that has most of the dimensions of most of the current Quickies, so that I could be sure the things I'm doing fit into the parameters of known performance.

A person who saw it this past weekend said it looked like a V-Vector. A lot of people will say it looks like "so and so" because there's only so much you can do within the Q-500 rules. I can guarantee you and everyone else that it is not a copy of anything.

I guess I'll have to post some pics now ... I wanted it to be a surprise.