Lol. Dual EDF's in addition to the motor pods?
You could go from zero to stupid in half a second with something like that. I was thinking more of making a rocket pod inline with the CG under the tail. Less expensive, and possibly the same bad result.
It's actually more of a new design rather than an addition, as I bumped the base wingspan up to 40" to keep the wing loading down. The only thing I was really able to keep was the outer surface of the wing itself. There were also a lot of upgrades I wanted to implement into a new model of the Pike, and doing them all here was actually quicker than modding the old plane.
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All the thinking parts are done. All that's left are spars in the fuselage, and the wings. Mindless, boring hole punching. The motor pylons, mounts, and v-stab are ready to print. If this works out, I may be able to do a quick and dirty retrofit of the original model with tractor pods like this, but I kinda dread working with the old file. The new file structure I've come up with is far more friendly towards modifications, at least without some sort of super computer.