Recent content by Rod Schneider

And, his last track update at 6:55 AM CDT shows him near Grafton NE, making a U-turn and at 1,800 ft at 107 mph. Hope he's ok!

More than likely he did land there, that's where he lives.

Hmmmm....... the Raptor apparently hasn't flown in the past 10 days. Peter last flew it from Valdosta (KVLD) to his airpark home in Arkansas (2A2), about 544nm. He did not do the flight nonstop, he went as far as Fayette, Alabama (M95) the first day, and the final leg the following day. There...

I believe he has a home on an air park in Arkansas. He may be headed there.........

The landing gear is hydraulically actuated using an electric hydraulic pump. It's a closed system that only operates the landing gear. Using engine oil pressure to adjust the prop is the way the vast majority of airplanes with constant speed props operate.......

I was around him a bit when he was here at Cherokee (KCNI). Did help a little on some things, but became very apparent that I probably did not want to risk being associated with this project. He tends, at least in my observation, to be very suspicious and wary of anyone trying to...

When Peter was at Cherokee County Airport (KCNI), I spent some time with him and got a pretty good look at the airplane. Even helped him install portions of the redrive after he made some changes to it. It became apparent very quickly that he did not like to take advice from folks who knew how...

If you see the Wasabi video about the Raptor, it appears that the rudder pedals are linked together and both pedals cannot be depressed at the same time.

I'll add my perspective on the Wasabi video. I've been around Peter from the day he brought this project up to Cherokee. I've had many conversations with him over the last year and a half or so. Even helped do a few things on the project, mostly providing a third hand during some of the...

This one is based here at Cherokee (KCNI). Not sure who actually owns it, but it is configured for hand controls in the front cockpit. Our airport manager was injured a few years back during the filming of "American Made" (Tom Cruise), and is in a wheelchair. He, and some others, fly this plane.

You are very correct--I talked to the fellow who flew the model. After 4 flights, Peter said that he was happy. No further flights were carried out..............No stall testing at all.

The Raptor is at my home airport, and I've seen a lot of it over the last year or so. This was the 3rd trip out here for Elliot and Justin. The first trip was before Christmas last year and produced a list of things that Peter needed to address before a flight attempt could be made. The...

They have not decided to fly! Elliot and Justin, along with Mark Zeitlin, made a list of concerns that need to be addressed before any attempt to fly this thing. Apparently, the list has a number of items, including concerns with the aileron control system and the elevator system. If I had to...

I've been keeping up on his videos pretty regularly. It appears that he has started blocking some folks from being able to make comments. His "whining" noise video that he mentioned seemed to have a reduction in comment count by about 10-15 very suddenly, and several comments that were...

When I worked maintenance at Delta, I was a part time instructor teaching maintenance folks how to taxi our planes. As such, I had access to our full motion simulators in Atlanta. One evening I took my 12 year old nephew down and put him in an L-1011 sim and set him up on approach to the...