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I can't tell, do they like it? http://www.aero-news.net/subscribe.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=0fd72487-51d8-471d-9df0-babedec3ccb7

It's gotta be a turbine, right?

He did have many deposits. The regular deposits were in escrow all along and he recently told those people to get their deposits out of escrow and they could still keep their delivery positions (with an unstated purchase price). There was also a higher tier equity investment of $20k. He has...

Peter: The CFD says Raptor 2 will perform better than Raptor 1. Is that the same CFD that said Raptor 1 would perform far better than Raptor 1 actually performed? Not that I blame the CFD, it's limited by the user's input.

Other people's money. He's good at creating concepts that look cool at a glance and making bold claims that sound revolutionary even if they're nonsense. He got at least $2.6 million in investments for the first version. Those are reportedly being paid back now, apparently out of new investors'...

Just wait, the next big reveal is that there will be no pilot.

True, but he knew he was abandoning the original design quite a while ago and kept flying it to get to his mythical 40 hours, then tried to fly it to Boise. Could have saved himself a lot of trouble and just trucked it to Boise months or even a year ago and started on the new one already instead...

Yep. What was the point of all that "flight testing"? None of it is relevant to the new beast they've imagined. Why did he try to fly it there? No reason that makes any sense. So what now? We wait another 5-10 years to see how this one turns out.

I never heard anything like that. He was flying gear up in the video about a month ago.

Parachute is installed, but I wouldn't have used it either. If the plane is still flyable and you don't know that the parachute will work, keep flying.

Sorry, I'm not following. Shearing the gear off dissipated energy quickly. No, not ALL of the energy, but enough to shear the gear off. Seems like NOT shearing the gear off would dissipate energy less quickly.

Wouldn't shearing the gear off dissipate energy over a shorter time period? Seems like with gear up it would have slid through a few more rows of corn before stopping, dissipating the energy over a longer time period.

It's also entirely possible that going in the corn wasn't the plan. May have put gear down for the road. Either way, it worked out relatively well.

You're probably right. Kind of like ditching in water. In this case it obviously didn't flip, but probably would have sustained less damage with gear up.

Grab the wingtip, shake it real hard. If nothing falls off, "I'm OK with that."

From Nebraska State Patrol's Facebook page.

It was until about 7:00 this morning.

https://www.record-eagle.com/news/seawind-saga-pilot-who-crashed-in-lake-michigan-had-7-crashes-in-7-days/article_867676c0-e8d7-11eb-be82-db592d516d36.html Dennis seems to see himself as something of a hero in the story, but I think the reality comes across pretty clearly.

I wouldn't report him, but I really don't care if anyone else does. It's not on the snitch for reporting, but on the guy doing the violating. We're aviators, not the freakin mafia. If you want to be in the airplane business, learn the rules and follow them. His violating of the ops limits is...

Sure did, but we're talking about when it left Valdosta. That was two flights to 2A2, about 500 miles beyond the radius he was supposed to stay in.