ORIGINAL: stiletto660
Ed, I know, but I wanted to make this a low-winged model to allow me to trim it better for aerobatics.
Rainedave, I actually based this plane on the Desire when starting out with the drawings... which explains why the exhaust routing could be just as strange. I'm thinking I'll need a pumped engine since the tank location is probably going to be weird.
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Okey-dokey.
With a shoulder wing, you would have to run a little negative dihedral in order to get it to trim properly and eliminate some of the roll coupling. The engine installation would be a lot easier and blowing the air closer to the center line of the wing would aid in flight symmetry.
The real problem would be the landing gear and getting enough rudder area below the thrust line.
Your low wing approach is probably much better in all of those respects. Soooo, never mind. <G>
It is very pretty, by the way.
Ed Cregger