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As one of those who have been "tracking" Deltahawk and had a delivery
number for quite a while, I can tell you that we were supposed to be able to buy a real engine almost two years ago. About the time we were to be treated to available engines, all they did was to do one of their occasional updates and post drastic price increases on their "anticipated" prices. I have been a deeply interested observer and follower of Deltahawk for quite some time (measured in years), so if anyone has a right to suggest the term "milking it", it is me. I absolutely intended to hang a Deltahawk on my firewall. I only decided about 2 months ago that Deltahawk was going to keep leading people on and I realised that if I wanted to fly my RV sometime in my life, then Lycoming was the only logical choice. I'll let you dreamers keep wishing and hoping and waiting for the next website update that does nothing more than tout yet another publication writing about them. For my part, I'll be flying within 4 months. There is no way in hell that any Deltahawk will be flying in a real customer's aircraft within 3 years if at all, and my guess is that the "if at all" part is going to be explored mightily. MJC "wingsnaprop" wrote in message oups.com... Maybe I'm naive , but I truly believe , from all the input (E-mail) and The 2 (long) conversations I've had with Doug Doers, that the term 'milking it' is not in his vocabulary. not even close. What has happened to us as Americans? We used to believe that we could change the world. now all I hear is .. never happen, not in my lifetime, its TTTOOOOOOO HARRRD! *WHINE* While we are whining, these people are DOING IT. You want an FWF Kit? MAKE A FWF KIT. It's just Metal and rubber and Maybe Some Fiberglass, And some Good Honest Engineering, it's not BLACK MAGIC. It's not to be feared. It will get done sooner, rather than later, because of the Profit Potential and the American Capitalist System. We don't entirely disagree, but while you say ten years, I say 3 years. Using COBALT, I've started a FWF (well FWB Cause it's a pusher) design in CAD For my GlassGoose. The DXF files for the engine is just an easy and free FTP Away. |
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