Richard,
The aircraft in the photo is a display model of the concept. I, right now, even as I type, have the fuselage and wing center section blend for the 37% size (11 foot wingspan) in the garage. I also have the outer wings mostly complete. Just the fuselage from nose to jet exhaust is 84 inches long. I think a 36 lb. turbine would be about right. The tail boom and inverted V tail are all that is left as far as major construction goes. I have made a couple of modifications to the display model, which will be incorporated in the full-size aircraft. The fuselage was shortened slightly (will still be a two-seater), and the forward section was reattached with a slightly more "downward" angle, which looks much better, sort of like a Mig-29 profile and front view. The wings have been swept about ten degrees. I am having a local professional airbrush artist (the guy has won numerous awards at auto shows) paint it with the bunnies on the tail and I will show you photos when he is done. As soon as I get the StarCat kit out to several people then I can return to developing the StarJet for R/C turbine applications, probably the size of the Bobcat or Kingcat, or somewhere in between.
The problem in the last three years is that I have spent much of my time and money with this fight against the FAA. Basically what happened is I (we) were at towers that were being contracted out, we were supposed to transfer to other FAA facilities BEFORE a new pay system came into effect, which would have put me at Boeing Field as a GS-11, step 9, THEN in the pay conversion later my step 9 would have put me at the 90% position in the new pay band. But our Union took the FAA to court to stop the contracting (which they had no business doing) and about 5 months before we were scheduled to move a Cleveland Federal Judge stopped the program, because the FAA had not done a "cost analysis". So we were delayed 14 months. During the 14 months we were kept as GS employees, and all other controllers in the country went to the new pay system. This made sense since we were in a program "frozen" by a Federal Court. When we finally moved they should have put us at the same level as we would have been if we would have moved "on time", but instead the Union President agreed to use the wrong rule to change pay systems, putting us all at the BOTTOM of our pay band, cheating me out of $30,000 per year. So the Union and FAA agreed to violate the law, and that is what our case is about. This cheated about 28 of us, out of an average of $15,000 per year, and since the new pay system was a fixed amount of 200 million to be given to all controllers over a three year period, they just gave the rest of our raises to all other controllers in the second and third years, so they are now getting ONE DOLLAR per paycheck more!! Stolen from us and given to them. So all you need in civil court to win is preponderance of evidence, and we have 100% proof. Can you imagine, the Union action and FAA lack of action cause us to be delayed, and then because we were delayed they both agree to give us smaller pay raises than identical employees in the first three years of the program who were NOT delayed and had their pay set correctly. Bizarre, but true.