On Friday, August 3, 2012 11:29:52 AM UTC-5, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:48*am, Tony wrote: how affordable is affordable? It's designed to hit $100,000 in 2010 dollars. That includes convertible gear (nose roller and tail dragger), basic instruments, removable nose and tail ballast, and open trailer. type certified or kit built? Type certificated and built in series production. An experimental glider of this size and shape would be economically and socially unviable. This is a workhorse designed for operationality and transposition rate, and engineered for ease of repair using common composite materials. There is also the ethical concern of carrying people who have not necessarily made an informed decision to ride in a non-type- certificated aircraft. I think that they deserve an aircraft that has been tested to a higher standard than the typical kit aircraft. going to be opening an engineering office in Wichita??? I hadn't thought of that. Didn't they used to make airplanes there? Thanks, Bob K.

Cool and Cool

You could always put a bid in for Hawker Beechcraft...get a nice 7000 ft runway, some big ovens for composites curing, and plenty of employees