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DragonSleigh
Here is the concept. A single seat sport flier canard with forward sweep wing.
I have been working on this for some time and could not conclude the outcome. It is a collage from different design concepts of mine. Originally, I started to build RC planes in 1985, and my first was my own design, an ambitious project, derived from an urge to fly my own design. Well… over the years I played with the idea and tried different things. This has emerged from all of those images, now a model.
The Origin of the DragonSleigh came fro the Dragon Moth. The sleigh part came from the Dragon Moth's bottom wing, here it grew some more doubling up as the sleigh. The name came from the sketch where the profile resembled a dragon head, hence the DragonSleigh. This has now given away to a canard design with a fan, and The Seahawk also influenced this design. Using the profile of the new tail from the Seahawk and the DragonSleigh body a new DragonSleigh was conceived.
In Sep. of 2006 I revisited these concept in building a single ducked fan unit system. In the pictures above you may identify how the last version of the Seahawk tail came into play for the new tail of the DragonSleigh.
