In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
On Jun 23, 2:55?pm, wrote:


The bottom of the line Cessna 172 costs $235k.

Assume $50k for the engine and controls.

Assume $40k for the avionics.

That leaves the airframe at $145k.

Composite airframes are just as expensive.

What are you going to build an airframe out of that significantly reduces
that cost, Chinese rice paper?

Lapin is a babbling idiot.

You have shown that, if one wants to make a PAV for $50,000; they will
not be able to use a conventional engine or conventional avionics be
it would be too expensive.

You can have VFR avionics for under $10k, so that isn't really an
issue.

All you have to do is magically find a cheap engine that doesn't
exist to power it and cheap materials and assembly processes that don't
exist to build the airframe.

Note that the airframe is by far the most expensive component and
airframe parts and skin can't be made from recycled microprocessors.

If you have a magic wand, it is all trivial.


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Jim Pennino

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