Goat 5 design ideas

We're collecting ideas for a next generation Goat glider.

In this list we concentrate only on those that keep the following principles that seem to define what a Goat glider is:

• Car-top transportation
• 155 lbs maximum
• Construction techniques that don't require great expertise to be safe.
• Keep build time somewhere around 300 hrs

Please do come up with ideas that don't fit the above criteria, but make a different page for those ideas.

Ideas

1. A broader skid to reduce sudden ground grabbing
2. Removable, folding wing struts
3. Small mechanical upgrades from the Pig drawings
4. Improvement to wing efficiency :
More ribs for smoother surface?
Optimized airfoil for greatest L/D max
5. Exploring use of carbon fiber
6. Engine mounting options
7. Stress analyze frame: options for pilots up to 300 lbs