One of the things you'd do as an airline captain is keep a progress log as the flight unfolds, in order to establish (a) you're not lost (b) you're on time and crucially (c) you're not about to run out of fuel... and it pays to do something similar here as things begin to take shape.
We reduced the struts from 18" to 16" didn't we, and I do feel looking at this that we could go further and take off a couple of inches top and bottom? The 'drop' of each prop viz. the length of each blade is 11" and if motors are aligned with booms then that will leave sufficient clearance.
An argument for hi-rise struts like these would be to accommodate larger props, but we've only 24" spacing between the booms, so the argument is negated. I'll build a second prototype, which I could reduce in height ~ or alternatively do the same to this here before going further.
Needless to say this lands on my kitchen table, for as ever it's my cock on the block if it goes wrong*. The annoying thing is, should we drop the height then the skis will end up longer than the booms and will themselves need cutting back.
Bugger.
*An expression once used in my place of work, sadly unlikely to be used ever again.
