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Old December 5th 05, 05:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default (Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!

Smitty Two wrote:

Maybe you "should," but if that were the business model prevalent in the
real world today, Microsoft wouldn't be who they are. Imagine a product
or service that needs to be "patched' every three days or so being
successful in the market place. Utterly incomprehensible to Mac users
and other men of proper wit. Snake oil goes by a lot of different
monikers in different industries, but it isn't likely to be pulled off
the shelves any time soon. Caveat Emptor.


You've described *fBetters Bilt* pretty well. He apparently took
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" and applied it to rotary winged aircraft. He
took others designs and "improved" on them. All are "Caveat Emptor" as
they've proved to be fatal, least the people flying models. One for sure
was *vaporware* (Voyager-500 2/Plcs Helicopter, people paid for them and
never got anything), maybe mo

Excalibur 5/Plcs Turbine Helicopter (Excalibur is an airplane)
Star-Lite-A VTUAV Helicopter
Star-Lite-B VTUAV Helicopter
(He posted once he was "designing" a UAV)

Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0168122