Exactly. *Traditional hand labor can't produce any glider for that price..
But state-of-the-art composite manufacturing processes MAY be able to do it
if you can ramp up the production rate.


Bill,

I think you could do hand-layup and still have an attractive price. A
good portion of the work is the finish work, and with the high gloss
the new ships have, you pay for it.

Simple airframes with reduced part counts, are a start.

The up-front tooling costs to use automated processes would be way to
costly, at least for a small company to bootstrap itself into this
biz. IMHO.

Brad