To be clear, it's not lack of engineering imagination, just wanton rent-seeking. They're not afraid to kill people in the process either. "Externalities", the soft-palmed academics that peddle that econ propaganda euphemistically call it.
Might as well lock the gear down if you're going there. Reduces insurance premiums. And now you've got a whole new airplane. Gonna continue making it from aluminum, or is composite the wave of the future? And whether composite or aluminum, you're all over the space now dominated by Cirrus, which thumped the Cessna offering that was bought from Lancair. And the Bo.
An airplane and a car are tools. I buy tools for what they can do, not how they look. Of every car I've owned the one I miss the most is my Honda Element. Looked like a shipping crate but packed like one too. I covet Gipps Airvans.
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Redesigned engine mount for lower vibration
He’s lurking. He recently “liked” one of my posts.
When I managed a TV station in Duluth, Minnesota, we had a special sales promotion going on in nearby Ironwood, Michigan. Our sales manager was calling on a prospect there, when the guy said, "You know, Jim Morrison is still alive. He comes in here now and then and jams with the local guys."
Nah. That just coincidental to when I came along, which is more likely the reason.
Prompt: just keep adding big words until I say stop…………..lulz, the ecological damage that would occur by energy demand if LLM derp derp attempted to mockingbird my written style lol.
Heck, I'm already full on accelerationist since the latest article 88 veiled threats at work, so I welcome the challenge. Come at me HAL
*neighborhood browns out*
Dude, your signal to noise ratio...lulz, the ecological damage that would occur by energy demand if LLM derp derp attempted to mockingbird my written style lol.
Heck, I'm already full on accelerationist since the latest article 88 veiled threats at work, so I welcome the challenge. Come at me HAL
99% sure it's on purpose. It's like when Buddy Hackett was on the tonight show, and they'd put him on a 30 second tape delay so the censors could bleep out the swearing. Except he didn't swear then, he told a filthy joke that the censors couldn't figure out in 30 seconds. With HS, he's writing dark things that those that would make goofy comments about don't get at all...and if they do it's still deniable as that's not what was meant.
If they really meant it, you’d have already been hung with loss of confidence.
And I included them because they aren't just "avionics". They were in most cases the first GA manufacturer to offer them, and many of them you still don't/can't get by adding avionics to other manufacturers' planes.
Beech really hasn't been Beech since Beech was Beech.
Were they actually working on a SETP?
IMO, Piper would have failed even if they finished it. They tried to sell it like it was a Gulfstream - IE, give us a hundred grand and THEN we'll let you sit in the mockup. Exactly the opposite of Cirrus, and Cirrus is wildly successful with their methods...
1. True - so true!
Looks like all they had to do was grab some parts off the shelf! B58P fuselage, B36TC wing, Garrett on the front, and go!
It was okay. It was a jet, it was a single, it would have been more affordable to acquire and maintain than other jets that were available.
Making new airplanes is undoubtedly very expensive. What was the last company to be founded and certify an aircraft without starting in the experimental market to stay afloat, as Epic, Columbia, and Cirrus all did? Diamond maybe? (They started with the HK36 motorglider in the early 80s, DA20 in the 90s, DA40 in 2001, DA42 in 2004, etc...) And they failed to complete their jet as well, though all three certainly had headwinds as a result of the economic conditions at the time the idea of VLJs/PJs was getting popular.
I'm unsure. I mean, they are available for some Cessnas and others as retrofit. I"m sure some aeronautical engineer at least spent some time on a feasibility study before they decided not to offer it. I think if they could have gotten it approved fro the A36, they would have sold a LOT of them in the last 10 years and it would have kept up the "Bonanza is leading" talk track.
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Apparently yes.
I think I would talk a 59 Lincoln over those other 1950’s models.
