Recent content by rbarnes

Here's a good talk with Mike to the gathered crowd answering questions

100 people who paid $20k each for the first production units.

He's got to keep everything up to par with that spaceship panel.

Take: One Jet fighter with throttles that lock open in afterburner Subtract canopy Disable ejection seat Install mechanic to do simulated full power takeoff runs down the runway Add fuel truck on the runway Season with a jet airliner taking off on crossing runway

Dont be a boomer.... XM radio Uber Sony Pandora Tesla Peleton WeWork Zillow SpaceX General Electric Profits are so 20th century. You just have to be a "disruptor". Frankly I'm surpised Raport LLC has gone public through a SPAC

Engine alternative: Yamaha APEX snow mobile engine with skytrax gear box Get this book...

Soon as I saw this part of the vid I was scratching my head on how in the world they got all those moving parts with different thermal expansion rates to work. Too bad there are no recordings of it running. Must of sounded like the world's most insane weed wacker at literally deafening levels.

Surprisingly never heard of this thing

I have a feeling Mike intends to the sandbag the whole wing and this test was more about validating the extrusion construction method and solid work's predictions of said extrusion vs a traditional cap and web riveted together.

"We have some interesting changes in plan for the plane and I wont be the one revealing that it will be the (new) company doing that" Sure sounds like he sold the IP to some mysterious west coast "investors". The whole 21 hours left to fly has to relate to a contract obligation as part of the...

Sounds like he has sold the rights to the company and IP to his "west coast partners" and they will be redesigning the plane.

Running on a magneto ??? 🤔 engine driven fuel pump diesel ???

Trout fishing. Ozark flying. More rivers, springs, and lakes than you count within a 1 hour drive. Looking forward to it. Tired of living with 7 million people.

Just drank the Kool-aid and signed closing docs on empty lot at 61AR. Cant wait to get building next year I hope.

Many airplanes have this. My Grumman Tiger had a big plaque glued to the instrument panel "Do not operate at 1850 to 2200 rpm" due to the prop harmonics in that particular install and engine combo. Whole point in TV testing is to find those rpms, but some people think they can TLAR it... 🤦‍♂️