Lancair turboprop

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Voyager wrote:

And not even close to "jet-like" speeds. Very few jets have an economy
cruise of 310 MPH and max cruise of only 385. This is a turboprop
with, duh, turboprop-like speeds. :-)

The max cruise is higher than that of the Eclipse and the Cessna
Citation Mustang...

http://www.eclipseaerospace.net/imag...lipse_2010.pdf

http://www.cessna.com/citation/musta...fications.html

I think two qualifies as "very few." This is like saying that a Camry
has "sports car-like" performance because it is as fast as a Miata.


And, yes, I expect virtually no market for it. There will always be a
few with more money than brains, but probably not more than a handful.

Depends on your definition of "handful". There are more than 30 Lancair
IVs with turbine engines on the FAA registry.

With regard to airplane volumes, yes, I consider 30 in the handful
category. I would probably consider 50 to be a handful as compared to
the volumes of most economically successful airplanes.

Matt