Sounds like a great project Ken, always did like my Skymaster spamcan.  Like any Cessna, the outer couple feet of wing just goes along for the drag while at cruise.
Think some VG's around the  lower rear fuselage should get rid of some of the drag too.
But then again, a twin engine Cozy looks awfully inviting...
Roger Robertson
Stuck in a TB20 for now.

Ken Welter wrote:

   That was a Defiant, I would love to have one of them but one that I am seriously thinking of is a C-337 Skymaster two 13b turbo's as I have a line on a hull and I would build new wings so I could get it into the 51 percent rule.  Ken

 

There was a canard plane with an extra engine in the nose

 at Arlington about 8 years ago. They were regular airplane

engines. I think that was the same year I met Ken Welter

there. Do you remember the plane Ken?

Lonnie