Yep, basically a pregnant dragonfly - with a few twists. Thanks for the tip - I will contact him.
The idea was to create an aircraft that could be used as a high efficiency touring plane, or a relatively STOL bush plane by swapping the wings and undercart. In the picture, the aircraft is in "touring mode", but by replacing the laminar flow wings with some thick 18 percent high lift ones with junker flaps, you are suddenly left with a different plane. That's why I made the tail sit high, to get the clearence while in STOL mode.
I put the pilot in the back, looking over the head of the the passengers, to try and address the balance problem that Jon refers to in his post.
I had read that dragonflys and quickies had very little storage space, and was aware that simply "stretching" one would probably not lead to success. So I made the balance such that the the passengers sit on the centre of gravity, and that the pilot counterbalances the engine.
As far as I know, X-plane models the CG range effects of weapons on figher aircraft quite well, so I made some station loads using the weapons function in xplane and placed them in the passenger seats and baggage compartment. The magpie seems to take them in it's stride, and that's with the fairly standard airfoils that I've fitted it with at the moment (8 percent laminar flow airfoils front and back)
As it is the front wing is much more highly loaded than the rear, and I'm unsure as to how realistic is x-planes modelling of the interaction between planes - in fact there are many things I'm unsure about - but I hope the model will shed some light.