Six-Place Composite?

"aluckyguess" wrote in message
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Well talk to Ratheon for me and drum me up a little capital and I will do
it.

Drum up your own capital. No one's going to invest unless you can convince
them you have a decent business plan. I don't believe that you do, so I'd
be pretty hard-pressed to convince anyone else you do.

I have some time on my hands. I bet we would make a 30% profit to boot.
I think I could build a Cherokee 180 for well under 100k depending on
avioncs.

I doubt that too, even if you're talking cost, not retail price. But again,
feel free to try. Sure would be nice to see an airplane equivalent to a
Cherokee 180 for half the price of a new C172.

Pete

John,

I wouldn't be surprised if Diamond is the first of the Diamond /
Cirrus / Lancair crowd with a six place composite.


They have it already in the middle of certification. They call it
D-Jet. And they have decided a piston engine doesn't make sense for
that kind of aircraft.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:19:37 -0500, "Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net
wrote:

You make all valid points Pete. I think it's unfortunate that the
Beech/Cessna/Piper trio won't be coming out with anything "new." As other
people have said, I think their days are numbered (even though it'll be
years if not decades) if they don't take a drastic risk and come out with a
new airframe. Maybe the Boeing-Airbus saga of betting the farm on new
airframes is destined to become the saga of the GA manufacturers. Anyone out
there doing a thesis? That would make for a good subject.

If that's the case, I wonder of even Cirrus is willing to come out with a
new six-place if it means betting the farm. Maybe Cirrus' SR-2x airframe
will follow the PA-28 = PA-32 route and spawn a six-place airframe with the
majority of components being similar if not identical.


before all this will happen I'd bet that Honda then has already taken over
the market.

btw: anything new on the Honda plane?

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:24:35 -0600, Dan Luke wrote:

Answer the question: if it's such a good idea, why hasn't someone
already done it? Or to put it another way, what do you know that the
entire light aircraft industry doesn't?

and then you are also confronted with a very conservative market. come up
with a reasonable priced and well equipped plane, fuel efficient and with a
new design. the majority will let everybody else buy the plane first.

sounds familiar?

#m

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The D-jet interior as now conceived is a 3-person bench seat in the rear,
but there will be a sideways facing seat that can be used in-flight, but not
for takeoff and landing.

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Marco,

Diamond D-Jet? You said single-engine g, but I think it only has five
seats. The Grob
Ranger is in that league, too, albeit with a turboprop. And then there's
the Extra 400 - or
is there?

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)