The NACA-derived airfoil provided a high maximum lift coefficient and small pitching moments and the wing had washout to avoid tip stall.

There, a small, ply skinned fin carried a largely fabric covered, rounded, wide chord, balanced rudder which extended down to the keel.

The straight tapered tailplane, also largely fabric covered, was set forward of the fin and at the top of the fuselage, so the elevators required only a small cut-out for the rudder to move in.

The pilot sat upright just ahead of the wing leading edge under a multi-piece canopy which merged into the aft fuselage.

[1] Development of the Maeda 703 was stopped by the spread of World War II to the Pacific, but not before Tadeo Kawabe had set a new national glider endurance record of 13 h 41 m in February 1941 in the second 703, A1606.