OK, I suppose it depends on what you do. You have more wing area so more lift capability. You would likely have a bigger moment at the root, which you's have to account for, but I believe the way to get the payload up is to increase the wing area, no?

I'm thinking the original plans call for carbon tows (if I'm not mistaken), but if carbon pultrusions were used instead, you could recover from the additional span without too much impact to the weight. I can do the calculations, so I'm not worried about that. I'm more worried about the impact to the flight characteristics.

I need a bigger payload, but there really isn't any alternatives to the carbon dragon [that I can tell]; so, If I built one I would have to do a little adjusting.

Thoughts?

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> You have it backwards , there is no increase in payload due to the extended wing. extending the wing will decrease the payload
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> really enjoyed watching the vids of Steve's dragon. Are there any plans for this version -- lots of nice touches? What do you figure is the increase in payload due to the extended wing? That's always been a problem with the initial design (IMHO).