another design concept

....Uhhh, does anyone else think this plane looks an AWFUL lot like a
Seawind?

And if so, does anyone else realize how LONG and nasty the Seawind
development/certification process has been? And these guys want to
add foils and other complications on top of the structural and
aerodynamic concerns of a high-mounted engine on the tail? Oof!

I don't care what a concept or prototype version can do, if you're
aiming for a production aircraft... See the Adam Aircraft A700
problems, or any one of a number of other aircraft in recent years
that had great flying prototypes but utterly failed when it came to a
production run. Making a single flyable aircraft is a totally
_different_ challenge from making an aircraft that can be serially
manufactured. There are many (sometimes competing) complications when
you have to take manufacturing processes and labor into account!

--Noel

Uhhh, does anyone else think this plane looks an AWFUL lot like a
Seawind?

And if so, does anyone else realize how LONG and nasty the Seawind
development/certification process has been? And these guys want to
add foils and other complications on top of the structural and
aerodynamic concerns of a high-mounted engine on the tail? Oof!

I don't care what a concept or prototype version can do, if you're
aiming for a production aircraft... See the Adam Aircraft A700
problems, or any one of a number of other aircraft in recent years
that had great flying prototypes but utterly failed when it came to a
production run. Making a single flyable aircraft is a totally
_different_ challenge from making an aircraft that can be serially
manufactured. There are many (sometimes competing) complications when
you have to take manufacturing processes and labor into account!

--Noel



The difference may well be that the Adam and the Seawind are produced by people in the land of litigation, USA.

It do look similar to a Seawind, thats fur shur!

Bagger

On Aug 5, 2:28*am, bagmaker
wrote:

The difference may well be that the Adam and the Seawind are produced
by people in the land of litigation, USA.

While I don't disagree with your statement, litigation has NOTHING to
do with the failure of those companies. Design problems do. Both
companies produced exellent concepts and prototype vehicles. But they
severely underestimated the design and manufacturing requirements of a
production vehicle. This led to serious delays and cost overruns as
they had to re-design the aircraft multiple times, and tweak their
production processes to get something that could actually be
manufactured in a reasonable manner.

Take care,

--Noel