[Aerohead]

Absolutely not. To glide well, you need big ol' wings. There's a concept called aspect-ratio, which is basically the relationship between the wingspan (left to right) and wing chord (front to back). High AR = better for gliding. Conversely, and in the case of the mini-PW, when you have virtually no wingspan, you aren't going to glide very far. We affectionatly referred to power loss as "brick mode".

[larrydag]

So i suppose you could design a trade-off or balance. Increase AR while reducing the size of the mangus effect airfans.

[Aerohead]

Well ideally we wouldn't lose power to begin with but yes. The PW is essentially a powered wing to begin with, so losing power leaves you with just a wing. The real design benefit here is that with the powered wing, you can make the win extra thick. And I can tell you, that internal space is huge. Plenty of room for any kind of payload.