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    Cool New Canard Designs

    Sure Mark, Kerlo won't talk about it so let's do! Williams F122, 65 pounds dry, 904 pounds thrust, SFC .645 Cost in the early 2000's.....about $1.2 Downsides; Just like the AMT Lynx and PBS TJ it didn't have much of a TBO! Last I heard from the Sonex camp the PBS TBO was a significant...
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    Cool New Canard Designs

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    Raptor NG Discussion

    Isn't the first stage of the JT9D and the GE90 effectively a ducted fan? And isn't the first stage of the GEnx one hell of a ducted fan? And I think it 747, 777, and the 787 flew faster than 200mph. And I know they will fly at 45000.
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    10/23 Raptor Video

    Yes indeed.....The Raptor project was the aviation homebuilt industries version of the Silicon Valley "Let's throw a software spitball at the wall and see what sticks". That was pointed out about PM some 4 or 5 years ago on the previous thread and met with substantial blowback form this...
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    10/23 Raptor Video

    Indeed...Operating Limitations would have been a better way to express it.
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    10/23 Raptor Video

    What testing?...Looks like he is simply trying to get out of Phase 1 so he can jump ship. Lot's of experienced people warned of this.
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    Need to find a custom trailer for a cassutt.

    It is possible that this one may be available. 22' all aluminum. Dolled up. Roll your racer right in. It is all configured. https://disk.yandex.com/i/gPOrYezRrGCr3g https://disk.yandex.com/a/Qa_CSxK_NFTlIw https://disk.yandex.com/a/m2OkUBp5IIw3hg No bottom fishers please.
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    So where is PM going with this? It is VERY clear, and has been for quite some time, that this airplane will never become a kit or any other form of final product. PM will not find major investors who will pony up for the huge costs of taking this project forward. So I ask again, where is PM...
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    As many have stated in the past; the airplane will most likely fly and will probably be flown. But at 3200 pounds stripped down and 180 cubic inches the airplane is simply not viable and will not find funding to move forward. Virtually everything aft of the firewall is non aviation, home grown...
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    No, No. Marc. Pictsidhe was not talking about the PSRU. The PSRU is obvious. He was addressing the dynamic coupler. Did you tell PM that the coupler was likely to fail due to dynamic mis-alignment?
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    "otherwise"????? The airplane is doomed period! This airplane is not and will not become ECONOMICALLY viable. Regardless of all else including who runs the program or who funds the program. If this configuration were taken into production the cost would be astronomical. It is a dead...
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Absolutely without doubt! Let's hope it gives him some warning like the first one did. Zeitlin, you put your eye's and your hands on it. Was the vacillating alignment issue written up in your original report?
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    I got mine in one of these.... chasing these....
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    A YT comment read....I hope this doesn't end up on the news. Forget all the money, all the work, all the time; I sincerely hope this 3200 pound rattle trap doesn't hurt him or worse yet kill him. If you have flown canards then you know how fast the nose can unexpectedly come up at rotation. If...
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Nor will the production version because there will be no production version, nor a fast build version, nor a kit version, nor any other version. This airplane will probably fly but that will likely be the end of it. If its performance numbers don't kill it the economy will.
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Speaking of Wanna Bes'; you wouldn't be referring to either of the two who didn't go to TPS at Edwards or Patuxent....would ya? I don't think I have ever seen "Wanna Bes'" like these fist pumping hotdogs!
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Does anyone have any insight as to what kind of a "deal" Peter has cooked up for aircraft production. He has repeatedly referenced some kind of "agreement", or "deal", or "commitment" or other, once the airplane fly's. It seems inconceivable that anyone would get behind this project with...
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Perhaps the EXTENSIVE full scale and 1/4 scale wind tunnel testing?
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Wasn't that the run that "chucked" the first flex coupler?
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    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Your point is well taken regarding control system modifications. If the cause of the binding was the tripping of the yoke on the guides (sleeves), as he demonstrated, then you wouldn't think that changes downstream would cause that particular issue. No doubt the mods which you mention had...
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