Karrpilot
I guess I am just not that picky. I have and do fly relics with faded peeling paint, thread bare and missing curtains, etc. As long as it’s airworthiness is current, I am in it.
I guess I am just not that picky. I have and do fly relics with faded peeling paint, thread bare and missing curtains, etc. As long as it’s airworthiness is current, I am in it.
There’s a reason why Kendall (Lancaster aero- smoke town) has a year out wait…he’s worth it…got to see the AOPA Tiger in progress. I geeked out big time…neat shop and personable staff. Repainting an aircraft takes a LOT of labor intensive time.
No paid actors were hurt during the presentation of this commercial… 
I was curious as the changes in the weight and balance.
Avoid carnauba wax? Interesting. I’ve never heard that before. What about ceramic coating on the clearcoat?
I’d also be curious about the weight and balance. Filing all the dents and applying multiple coats of primer and paint can add on the pounds pretty quickly.
Good thing the European companies are doing this. Complete waste of time and money. Sustainable and net-zero objectives won’t do any good if passengers won’t ride in something with a prop. This same technology was rejected by US airlines some 30 years ago because of this issue and the noise they create.
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Great idea: The Open Rotor has an old fashioned name - it’s called a propeller.
The same for EMBRAER in Brazil. I actually saw the model in the wind tunnel when they were testing the “noisy” engine…
I’m not sure I get the concept.
Isn’t this just a turboprop variant? Or a non-ducted turbofan?
I don’t see anything truly new here.
Also, if it saved gas and this outweighed the downsides of the design, wouldn’t it have been used for the past 50 years?
I’m not trying to be snarky (for a change ;-), I just don’t see the point.
So instead of burning around four litres of kerosene a second it will burn 3.2 litres a second… Biofuels are suddenly looking competitive thanks to Vlad the inflator, but there are more and more people refusing to fly on holiday to gawk at natives. You only have to look at the queues in airports to see most of those waiting are behind the times and stuck in the 1990s.
Tell me about your cell phone from 40 years ago Kent. The list of engineering problems that we were a roadblock then that we have the technology to solve now is pretty long. And why are you so scared? You aren’t paying for it, and you never know what else might be discovered along the way. Thake a deep breath.
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It’s time we went back to flying in our Sunday Best, eating fine meals with cocktails in Constellations and DC7s burning non-E mogas. Let the unwashed ride mules. I’m tired of sitting with them.
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Didn’t “we” already go through development and full testing of this and it didn’t pan out? Did someone change the physics?
Very high speed propellors in air are extremely loud (today as well as 40 years ago). Watching companies rediscovering failures is not fear inducing, it’s rather funny.
Amen.
Better for our planes, cars, motorcycles, and small engines (movers, trimmers, snow blowers etc.)
Not likely in the US. Otherwise we would have never had (“beloved”) regional jets.
They have ended or are about to end production, nobody wants them.
Dang if that doesn’t sound appealing
Unfortunately after wasting my money on motorcycles and bicycles and airplanes and twin turbo V8 sport sedans my budget more closely approximates the great unwashed…
It’ll get you there, chop, chop!
Hmm, doesn’t EU have strict noise limits for aircraft?