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My friend Koen Van de Kerckhove has been busy sketching away, and his ever-inventive brain continues to come up with interesting designs.  I’ve taken one of his sketches, made some RTFM-type changes, and this is what I came up with.
It is a Flying Flea, but a canard-variant.  i.e. the front wing is smaller than the rear wing.  Axel Darling proved that this configuration is superior to the Mignet formula (which had the larger wing in front). By reducing the front wing a bit, it puts the CG roughly in the correct position (at about the pilot’s belly button).  Making the front wing smaller moves the CG rearwards.

The rudders (two of them) are mounted to the rear wings.  That is going to make a very striking package.

Engine?
Well, it needs to be light, in order to get the CG in the right place.  Possible candidates are the Eos 150 (4-stroke, 30hp, 20kg, 2.5l/hr); the Bush Dawg 4 Stroke EFI Paramotor From BlackHawk (4-stroke, 40hp, water cooled, EFI); the Vittorazi 185 EFI (the only EFI 2-stroke – 15kg, 26hp).  I’m not a great fan of 2-stroke engines, but the EFI on this one gived almost 30% greater fuel economy over a non-EFI 2-stroke, the exhaust system is extremely quiet, and there is little to no power band to speak of.  This is the first 2-stroke I’d consider flying behind.

One of the advantages of buying a paramotor is that it comes with everything – all of the above, for example, come with everything already wired up.  Just mount the digital readout, fix the battery in place, mount the throttle somewhere convenient  and that’s it.

Another interesting powerplant is the electric OpenPPG electric motor, or here:

The question is – can you settle for 60-minute flight durations?  If you can, then the electric option is a real contender.

And while we’re about it, why not opt for the automatically variable pitch prop from Scout Aviation?  30% better fuel economy isn’t something to be sneezed at.

Well, there you have it.  Lot’s to think about, and lots of fiddling, drawing, re-drawing and calculating.  But this is looking very promising.