Compared to actual planes I think it's actually a bit long, though skinnier - then again, it is still based largely off of an I-Gear.
So anyway, I had an idea - remove the top thrusters:
As of this post, the model here is just a bare-bones expression of the idea, so the area the thrusters were on is completely flat.
The main idea is for those areas to allow accessories ranging from conformal fuel tanks to extra engines to an impossible number of missiles (all of these like Macross's FAST Packs... and because I-Gears taught me that space ships with too many main engines look impossibly cool) to maybe just one big missile.
In doing this, however, I discovered some very disgusting (impossible) geometry that needed fixing:


This is the stuff that destroys minds. I cannot comprehend what I could have possibly done to cause this. Was simple enough to fix, at least.