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He's already said he doesn't plan to do stall testing on this prototype. He said that "he knows how canards stall and what speed it should stall at already so there's no need to test."

In the latest video he says that he is following the EAA test pilot handbook. He said that it has a lot of sections on slow flight, flaps, and stalls. He has decided not to do those since "it's a canard aircraft, he already knows where it will stall, and the stall is going to be benign...

I believe that was the case when it was still at the old airport with a shorter runway. At Valdosta there's enough room for him to get to takeoff speed, float in ground effect, and land without too much braking.

The Rutan canards have zero issues with takeoff/landing prop strikes. Different story if you exit the plane after parking with the nosewheel still extended.....

I downloaded it first thing yesterday morning to try it out. It's on Microsoft Game Pass and the first month is $1. Took me about 4 hours to get it downloaded and installed. I loaded up a DA40 at my home airport and took off. As others have said, the controls were initially very very...

Also, I was incorrect in the model statement. It wasn't made by one of the builders, it was made by the guy who built and flew the model itself. Here's the quote

He originally used sleeved aileron cables without pulleys. The pulley system was the redesign after Wasabi came out. He also had to redesign the pitch control after the second visit when they found that slight pressures in roll would bind the pitch system badly.

The aileron system was redesigned after the Wasabi crew made their first visit and said the original system wouldn't work. You can see the slop in several videos, but go to 11:20 of this one and you'll see what I'm talking about. A homebuilder's forum that I frequent has been discussing...

The aileron issue was a big one. As he started doing taxi testing you could watch the ailerons flop about as he went over bumps. Also, he's mounted the pulleys for the redesigned control system to the skin of the airplane without any structural additions. He was pressure testing and didn't...

Peter has documented the build of this airplane since the beginning. For those of us that have watched all of the videos he's put out it's not difficult to see the myriad of issues that have been created. Peter deemed the aircraft ready for flight and hired test pilots when you could still...

Peter does get a ton of hate, some deserved and some not. But that's as it should be. It's his design and up to him to change that image by making a safe and effective airplane. So far it seems as though he's had difficulty doing that. I'm still trying to figure out what the Wasabi guys...

I think it's a little premature to rail on the Wasabi guys for coming out three times. We have absolutely no idea what kind of conversations happened between Peter, Justin and Elliot. I've not ever met any of the people involved but I've followed Elliot's career for several years now. He is...

I would really like to have this right now! I have been simming since the early 90's and have never been this excited about a release. If they can do the things they are advertising it's going to be a game changer.

I clicked on the thread expecting to see a picture of a bird that your cat brought home as a trophy or a plate that had been licked clean after "killing" a great meal. But dude, there was a murder at your house!!

I didn't sit and watch it, but I left it on for my cat to see while I was doing other things. I figure cranking the view count up on aviation based movies can only be a good thing!

He lost a lot of time on the IFR rating to all the filming he had been doing. If I had to choose between finishing my IR and training to solo the T6 I'd take the T6 any day! Or the jets, carbon cubs, Phenoms, etc that he's had the opportunity to fly because of the channel.

Bama fans love to root for players/coaches that have success at other places. Then they can yell Built by Bama and take credit for that organization's success as well. It's nauseating

Fascinating to watch!

There have been several people that have tried to open his eyes but he his fixated on flying this thing. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think it is going to end well