Yes, the next versions with ventral little jet (alone or in addition) featured longer wings like true sailplanes:

Now your on it T man   
Pretty sure those would actually fly 

Oh yes! 

I've built flying models a bit like them too!

I miss one design ... Just make a very short drawing , placing the cabin inside of the Very large engine could be funny .


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Thanks for positive comments!
And congratulations killnoizer!

Quote from: killnoizer on July 15, 2023, 09:35:12 AMI miss one design ... Just make a very short drawing , placing the cabin inside of the Very large engine could be funny .

A bit like the various Leduc designs, but then they were French too. 

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Thanks!

Another jet-Lightning half-sailpllane featured jets at wingtips:

And with a different centering this version had jets on the fin tips:

Tophe ya bugga..now I want to build one as a RC powered glider 
But I'm not ..I shall put my foot down and say no 

Sorry for my bad influence...  

With my apologies, I add still another one with 2 microjets:

Quote from: Tophe on July 15, 2023, 11:34:30 PMSorry for my bad influence...  

Why be sorry bud?? Being a bad influence is a good thing in wiffy world   
Bad influencers give use maniacs ideas and wiffs can't exist without ideas matey 👍

And your last design is the best and most plausible yet ...mate if was still building RC planes that last design would be built 😉😊

Love those sailplanes   

Wishing you a speedy recovery 

Mog
>^-.-^<

Just found this, I hope everything is going well.

With the Lightning, I've often thought about making it like the Vampire, with the engine in the middle, but with a cockpit on one of the booms, and perhaps an observer/bomb aimer/medevac on the other one.