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Hi Ray
Does this work?

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food for thought; in the spirit of experimentals, for new builds whose D-cells are yet to be cast and glued, here's an option for the ballast. requires Mark's willingness and a builder's appetite to experiment further (and some extra dough).

Forward swept D-cell. wing leading edge is swept forward by ~5°. will reduce need for ballast in nosewheel, will make wing a tad heavier, will "definitely" reduce landing speed by a few good knots.

Complexity. most forward wing sweep literature on the net is for higher speeds and more aggressive sweeps. such wings tend to have two airfoils blended into one whole wing. the airfoil section near the wing tips is different from the primary airfoil shape near the wing root. it also has a downwards twist of the leading edge near the tips, for better low speed stability or handling gusty winds i guess. New tooling for the D-cell, entire wing, squaring (or parallelogramming now) the wing is a major task.

for low speed regimes with lesser forward sweeps, it is likely the wing twist and secondary airfoil may not be required, especially with Mark's super sturdy wing.

two light aircraft in production for a respectable duration, with forward sweeps are presented below. can dig out more details from six year old information in backups, if required. detailed quant is required to proceed further, obviously.

personally, this is one of a few features i've been thirsting to tinker with, under Mark's "super vision" for some years now. just that a few bureacratic hurdles have seriously delayed travel plans for me here, related to formal documents (one is a few decades old land title).

ciao,
chow