Alef Aviation!! Where they heck did THEY come from? Never heard of 'em. So I clicked on the link. Looks like four eAviation fanatics with soldering irons to me? OH! They’re in San Mateo … home of the uber wealthy fruits, nuts and dreamers and eZealots of silicon valley. So they’re the latest ‘vaporware’ purveyor. Swell. They don’t even have a decent picture or description of their design goal.
Maybe they’ll brag about using friction stir welding techniques to put their thing into production so as to save costs … kinda like that Eclipse company did in Albuquerque. OR … maybe they’ll be like that seaplane company building $125K flying jet skis for rich baseball players? Perhaps they’ll use some of that technology used to hook up a Cessna O-2 tail to a Pinto. It actually flew at Van Nuys and proved that crashing a Pinto causes a fire. But then … we already knew that. Maybe NASA will take the idea on since it’s obvious THEY have an unlimited budget.s OR … the CHP might buy some so they could patrol I-5? I think they should call it, “Wishful Thinking.”
There’s NOTHING I’d love better than to be positive and upbeat about something like this but … people like this are spoiling it for everyone.