Qualifying (Patreon)

A couple of days ago I saw a piece of MLP Fan art on Twitter from SAT_V12. The picture was of Rainbow Dash wearing her Wonderbolt's uniform  while sitting on a really cool grav cycle. It was obviously suppose to  be a racing setting because the picture also had Rarity as one of the  pit girls.

    When I saw the picture I  realized that it had been awhile since I had done any sci-fi tech. I'm  talking about Type 3 tech where all that matters is that it looks  awesome. In this case I used a shark and a Dassault Rafale  jet fighter for my design cues. One thing I did give some thought to  was how to keep RD's out of the slipstream as much as possible. When she  leans all the way forward she can fold her wings and tuck them under  the scalloped areas on rear part of fuselage. Also the top part of the rear fuselage has a shallow scallop that RD's tail can rest in. 

     Years ago I use to sit around and just brainstorm stuff like this all  day long. So it was nice to get back to my roots with stuff like this. I  was also fun figuring out how to incorporate the Wonderbolt's design  into grav cycle's paint scheme.