Bob,
Yea, It will be blended much better than my stick figure drawing. I wasn't joking when I said that was done with MS Paint, in about 5 minutes. Mostly just to get across concepts. I've now got my spike/cone part shaped out, and it's ready to take primer. Last night I was just rough cutting out the disks that will be shaped down for the 6 inches that funnel from about 7.5 inches in diamater down to about 5.75. The by-passes turned out really sweet, and flow into Tam's tail pipes just perfect.

I'm kind of progressing on many fronts at once, so I've not gotten one section done yet for an update... engine airflow stuff, nose gear is done, about half done on making the molds for the tip of the nose and tip of the tail.

I measured the unducted version right at a 20% loss, at a total of 42 lbs of thrust. It will be very interesting to measure it after all this work on the ducting.

Thanks again all,
Lance