I wish Nat Penton would post in here....the "Voodoo Guru" allowed me to fly his plane (image 1) after the LARKS meet last Fall. It is the most neutral thing I have ever flown...period. He is a true aerodynamics thinker and tinkers constantly with new theories. His use of an anhedral stab is partly to keep at least some area of the stab in clean (or cleaner) air in all angles of attack. This design also includes flow straighteners that reduce the effects of torque, etc. This plane has zero engine thrust...not sure of other incidence numbers on stab and wings...they are probably at or near zero. Oh yeah, he is also a master at building light...70" (approx.) wingspan, 78.5" length, 8.5 lbs., OS91fx. The voodoo express is strangely stable in all axes.

I hope to build one of my own sometime this year...see 2nd image.

Some people are all about parasitic drag????...I thought, what if we were to mate this with nature's aerodynamic model of the raindrop? See 3rd image.



Where are you Mr. Penton?

This is a great forum.

-Mark