On Jun 23, 3:43*pm, Gig 601Xl Builder
wrote:
BDS wrote:
wrote

That leaves the airframe at $145k.

Composite airframes are just as expensive.

What are you going to build an airframe out of that significantly reduces
that cost, Chinese rice paper?

Lapin is a babbling idiot.

I wouldn't go that far - he just seems very naive and inexperienced.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about an aircraft that will use
yet-to-be-invented structural materials, a yet-to-be-invented power source,
yet-to-be-invented controls, yet-to-be-invented lift devices, and
yet-to-be-invented avionics. *What seems silly and quite pointless is
arguing about what may or may not be possible 100 years from now and what it
might cost.

Then you aren't reading his posts very closely. He thinks it can be done
with available technology.-

I do, with the exception of the lift mechanism and the power source,
which, not suprisingly, influence the rest of the design of the
aircraft more than anything else.

Note: I have no ideas about power source beyond the obvious, though I
would be prediposed to get the entire machine into the electrical
domain as quickly as possible, which makes some options more
preferrable than others.

-Le Chaud Lapin-