For the engineers out there

I've been unable to find detailed phantom specs on the web at this
point so I thought I'd ask here. I'm attempting to figure out a way
to own a phantom without selling my soul and have been thinking about
trailering ideas (given hanger rent is very expensive here).

Rather then remove the wings for trailering (which aparently is not a
workable solution for each flight), could the tail be removed and the
plane placed on the trailer sideways? If the fuselage was cut right
behind the wing, would the resulting section (from nose to trailing
edge of wing) be under 8'. Looks close but I can't find exact numbers
anywhere.

Obviously, an enclosed trailer would then be needed, and some
engineering work done to make the front-rear connection easy and quick
to achieve, as well as connecting the control cables up. But is the
idea at all practical?

Flame away! Or be constructive. Your choice.

Not a good idea. By the time you got done buying or building the special
trailer and modifying the plane, you could probably buy a late model Phantom
with folding wings. That is assuming you survived the first few test
flights.

If I were to buy another Phantom, which I'm considering, I'd buy an early
model that I could get a good deal on then I'd go out to the factory in MI
and take a ton of pics of one of their new models with folding wings....Then
I'd convert the early model to the folding wind design.

Actually...If you converted the plane to struts (been done), it would be
pretty easy to build a folding wing mechanism. I would model it after the
Kit Fox which has a very cool folding wing setup.

Ross