malte's latest activity

Out with more wild performance and weight predictions before anything is even built-again. He's seemingly not learned to keep his mouth...

Did he say the ducted fan allows for increased prop clearance, or increased crop clearance? Seriously, though, I’ve tried to hold off...

No I cant do it. I cant watch the video.

Well, it does look cool. Other than that, I'm just laughing. How many millions did they get out of Silicon Valley with this concept?

They pay me good money to make certain animal parts sound like silk purses along these lines. Can't you give me an easier task, like...

I would say there was a little voice in his head telling him he could pull off an off-airport landing, repair the problem and takeoff...

That little voice probably had a rubber ball shoved in its mouth by a thousand old dead pilots from the clouds.

The Raptor will make an exceptional gate guardian, mounted on a pole. Or a beautiful wind tee at Rutan's house in Coeur d'Alene.

Low altitude and the chute is untested. The chance of the chute failing and falling to the ground in a stalled condition would be very...

I, for one, am happy at the outcome. Peter walked away, and the plane will Not be flying again without a major rebuild. So no one can...

Yeah, but now when you make the new molds, the final product will have corn cob shaped depressions in it… kind of like dimpling a golf...

At the higher weights being flown on the last 2 flights, higher power levels were probably being maintained for longer in the climb so...

He’s got the best bad luck of anyone I know of.

I guess the highlight of this years Oshkosh is the arrival of Mike Patey and Scrappy, a chap who over performs at every level, and...

It all happened yesterday, but I secured a hangar share at CA35, and made a bid on EAA 393's Sonex Project...