AirVenture 2022: Elixir Aircraft 

Any bets as to how soon they experience great success and they announce a manufacturing facility in the USA? I bet 9 months after certification they will announce it, and have manufacturing in the USA by 2024.

Ya, and at least 1000 lb payload

Yes, considering that one of the closest competitor for the training market is Tecnam: 180.000 €. Sure, performance is not the same, but it's good enough, and who cares about performance when you are training?

Attainable you just have to apply yourself

@@Captndarty It's too late for that. Your RANS S-21 Outbound looks good..

@@Captndarty Funny

If God wanted man to fly, he would have made inexpensive aircraft…

@@dreamcreator2552 which is why Vans exists

except for the double price

yes ......less is more .................Sandy Munro

do you have the same concerns with Vans, Cirrus, Diamond, Corvallis TT, or Icon?

You simply have a dedicated crash axe onboard a ps a go-no-go item.

@@bwalker4194 Flipped upside-down in water will be very difficult to axe your way out. Not that simple!

@@pilotpeego1820 you’ll probably want to get the canopy unlatched before you hit the water, so that it will sink out of the way. Flipping it on land will be much more dangerous. You probably wont be awake to escape anyways, the fire suppression system might keep you alive until the firemen arrive to get you out. I supposed the axe is a good idea as well.

@@Heatherder Noted

You can turn captions on, helped me.

T tails are far better,,, hood scoop is likely for the turbo intercooler

The Risen 915 SV and JMB VL3 as well... Same price, much faster (especially the Risen), and they don't need to be built.

The first rule of being french, mention you are french.

It looks almost the same.

It's a 2 seater, flying at 160kt, and burning 15L/h of fuel. Without taking into account the operational costs (maintenance), that it can also fly with normal car gas as well, it's actually very interesting in the long term. Though, it's true, 2 other seats are missing, but that is a long term plan of the company. My flying club (in France) bought 2 of them, the training versions, and costwise, it's very interesting (it's the 250000$ version). It's true though that this aircraft was initially aimed for the European market, where EASA is sometimes stupidly requiring to much constraints on the aircraft (the perfect example is lightbulbs, we are not allowed to change them). Making something very simple to operate for Europe, will definitely be interesting for the rest of the world, including the US. Did not mention the fuel prices as well. A liter of AVGAS before Covid was at about 2.5€, (it's now 3.15€, went up to 3.6€/L, about 14$/Gal, when in the US it's about 6$), so very low demanding fuel aircraft is also a plus in the thinking of the aircraft. All of this will definitely benefit in the US, and the aircraft is already lead free fuel compatible. I approve though, this two seater for now is really more designed for training rather that trip flights. You can check the type of aircraft we are used to fly here in the EU by checking my videos :)

Sling 2 would be 175,000 fully loaded.

Factory built TSI is over $300k today.

Pilots don't die because they fly old airplanes. That is not a correlation.

@@airops423 Oh yeah there is a correlation. Check statistics, switch tank during the flight = forget to change the tank, certification about out of spin = spin in low hight in patern, still carburator in 2022 = icing, and lot of problems, impact with the ground, fire immediatly, alluminium means corrosion etc etc. The list is very long. Thx to Volvo, today we don't ask the question when you buy a car "should i take a seatbelt, an airbag or abs", it's include, because we mooved... time to plane to move also ;)

@@emmanuelgil7606 I would be interested to see the statistics you are referencing that conclude such a correlation between airframe age and fatality rate for single engine piston aircraft. Anecdotal data I've seen do not back up the claims you are making. For instance, Cirrus produces the most advanced aircraft in their category. Almost all of their planes are

I know of more people getting into trouble in newer high performance aircrafts like the Cirrus than a 172 or trying to race a storm on outdated weather information in their iPad. Carbs, mags and dials may be dated but they are incredibly proven and safe.