I-42 has the gist. All aeroplanes have shortcomings and one of the Chippies is a lack of power (145hp). But doing anything about that has lots of consequences which themselves need fixing, so pretty soon it's not that aeroplane anymore but some sort of ugly hybrid mongrel.
If you want a more powerful aeroplane, buy one. Don't try to change what dHC got just about right!
Pawnees and the big tail wheel Cessnas make great glider tugs, for instance. And the dHC1 would be useless as a meat bomber, though the one time I took ours into the para club field they were all eyeing it up to see how it might be jumped!
