The unfinished and unbuilt Volksplane VP-3 design by Bud Evans (mock up renderings above by FrtizW) was essentially a racier, cantilever version of the Volksplane with styling elements from an Indy 500 or Formula 1 race car of the day. One thing that caught my eye was the swept, all-moving vertical tail that he designed for the VP-3, shown here with the equivalent part from the VP-2 (I don't have VP-1 plans handy).
While folks here know of my love for constant-chord, "Hershey bar" wings and horizontal tails for ease and speed of building, I do sometimes use racier vertical tails on my sketches just for looks, and this sort of swept, all-moving vertical tail looks good to me, reminiscent of the some the old-school jet fighters. I could even see using a constant-chord parallelogram shape to have just one style of rib.
I also know that there are folks here that vehemently dislike the swept tails on the later Cessna models, for example, because they simply don't handle as well as the originals. I don't think this sort of all-moving tail would have those defects but I wonder if there are any other major pros and cons that I should keep in mind. Any thoughts?
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