where do the landing gear go? doesn't look like there is room.  and how
about engine exhaust?  is that under the wings?  which direction does
the canopy open?  does the pilot lay down?  why are the wing tips
'cut'?  i only recall seeing rounded wing tips.  does the pilot get to
sit on something and use controls or just flop around inside the
cockpit?  just kidding with that last one. considering the wingspan is 6
meters, it looks like the fuselage is about a meter wide and the canopy
would be 2 meters long.  and the engine compartment seems a bit small
maybe.  a friend of mine had a push plane called a cozy.  it had canards
in the front, wings that swept back and had the tails at the wingtips. 
it was a three seater and very aerobatic although i'm not sure of how
many g's it could handle.  they sold it to get a 5-seater twin engine
boring plane and shortly after that, the new owner crashed on landing. 
it was deemed unrepairable.  i must say, your design is visually
appealling.  i like it.

Jens Strohmeyer wrote:
> 
> This is a general aviation sports aircraft I designed in my spare time.
> It is a single-seater, has limited aerobatic capabilites (-/+ 6 g)
> and uses a pusher engine and rectractable main landing gear.
> MTOW is about 500 kg, top speed is 450 km per hour. Wing span is 6 m.
> (You must know that I am a post-graduate aerospace engineering student.)
> 
> "Designed" does not mean "paint" with POVRAY in this case.
> What you see is the result of months of hard work and lots
> of calculations and sketches and "what-if's", so there is a reason why
> the
> plane looks like this and not any other way.
> I used POVRAY for design visualization because I had
> no other CAD-Tool at hand.
> I send you this not to judge the image, but the plane !
> Any comments on the aircraft would be nice.
> Thanks !
> Jens
> 
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