@intrepidhero@vmst.io I know where you're going with that. 😀 You're describing a canard airplane. They actually don't remove the vertical stabilizers - at least in Rutan designs and derivatives, they moved them to the wingtips. If you want a stable and controllable plane for the pilot, there needs to be vertical surfaces toward the back to provide yaw-axis stability and control. Pretty much only military designs put up with unstable handling, usually augmented by computer. Here's a canard example...