Risen by Porto 2023 

Cruise at 190 knts and stall at 35 knts that is a truly insane envelope!

I have serial #28. I will be doing the final assembly after the plane arriving from Italy, next week. I have not flown mine yet, but I have flown the first 915 SuperVeloce, and it is in an incredible airplane. Wonderful plane to fly. 70% power was 162kias on that plane; I believe the newer planes are a bit faster. At 17.5K feet 163kias is 213ktas at 7gph. 1500fpm was no problem. Faster than my old Lancair ES-P at less than half the fuel consumption. Can't wait to fly mine. With regard to price, I believe they have been optioned above $300K. Mine was well under $300K, with a basic modern Garmin GPS IFR setup. I spent a month in Italy doing the 51% build. It did not suck at all. Awesome part of Italy. With regards to production numbers... Have you tried building up a new airplane factory from scratch? Not easy. They have invested a lot and have outstanding production tooling. I believe their production volume is ramping up; they have had an order backlog for as long as I have been following them. You don't go that fast on that little power with just a good design. Accurate production is just as important. As you can probably tell, I'm a fan.

I am just an armchair pilot with only 200hrs unpowered flight. Amazing speed envelope (40 to 280 mph) Amazing efficiency (2.25 gph at 124mph. That's 55 mpg of mogas). It seems there are several European manufacturers that have jumped on this niche to fit the ELA or "Euro Ultralight" certification. I just wish the EASA and the FAA would adapt similar definitions so developers in the USA can/could/would build planes like this. The main problem I see with this plane is that is has a financial contradiction, as in, it doesn't make sense to spend $280,000 to save $5,000 in fuel per year. You'd break even in 36 years of flying over buying a Bonanza for 100k. I know there's more to efficiency than financial. I love, love, love efficiency in all respects. Somebody's got to figure out how to make these for about 1/2 the price. I don't know how, but there's a lot of smarts out there.

this plane looks amazing and is quite fast!

A magnificent airplane, performance and beauty.

Thanks for the update!

Mosaic! Come on baby! Don't let me down! 😅

Just fascinating airplane!

Tuve la suerte de compartir mi adolescencia en ARGENTINA 🇦🇷construyendo aviones de aeromodelismo ✈️con el Genio de Alberto PORTO🥇hoy el sueño lo hizo realidad, subirse a su propia creación y batir el récord mundial en su categoría ✈️ GENIOooo!!!

i am VERY much looking forward to you getting to fly the Risen, Dan...

Quite beautiful actually.

Dan can this plane be registered as a motor glider? It seems to have similar wing loading numbers to Pipistrel, and actually a superior glide ratio. If it can be a self launching motor glider that opens up an additional segment of the market.

I want one so much!

Excellent interview, Dan. Thanks for giving us up and close introduction to this beautiful aircraft.

I remember that last interview.

El maravilloso Risen de un argentino inteligente y capaz, que con su talento y sacrificio logró este diseño y prestaciones increíbles !!!Cada nuevo video que se sube a youtube lo veo como un "fanático" soñando con un futuro...tal vez solo lo vean mis hijos....en el que muchos aeronáuticos mas puedan construir sus aeronaves y crear nuevos diseños...Yo, apenas vivo como un miserable en Argentina...un país maravilloso destinado a ser una potencia mundial y EN CAMBIO....SOMETIDO A UNA OPRESIÓN ASQUEROSA Y OBSCENA DE LACRAS GOBERNANTES QUE EXPULSAN A PERSONAS COMO EL INGENIERO PORTO Y MUCHOS OTROS CON CAPACIDADES EXEPCONALES !!! EN TODAS LAS DISCIPLINAS !!! A OTROS PAISES !!! COMO DESCENDIENTE DE ALEMANES AUSTRÍACOS E ITALIANOS, SIEMPRE SUEÑO CON PODER VOLAR ALGUN DÍA POR LOS ALPES DE MIS ABUELOS....lo único que puedo hacer en Argentina...soñar.....

Hi Alberto, this plane is my dream.

Amazing man, amazing design, incredible he managed to accomplish such a feat! But, how do you get in? I see no steps, no wing area to step on. That nice composite wing would get destroyed after a few hundred in and out of the airplane. Amazing it can fly in the flight levels. Who is this marketed to? Flying on a bright sunny day you're gonna be cooking. That long black dash is gonna be cooking! It can't fly IFR. Can't legally do approaches in real weather. The payload isn't adequate for 2 adults with luggage and full fuel. The interviewer did only softball questions. But as an owner I care how much it can carry and I don't want to be limited to day VFR. I would fly far less if I had such a limit, but my mooney can take 1000 lb payload, do LPV approaches, and go 1000nm at 12000'.

Will be very nice to show gliding performance in thermal conditions without engine running :-) Sometimes I fly in thermal with ultralight with ongine off, but Risen is much more efficient than plane I´m flying ...

450kmh = 279mph

some of these ula/lsa type aircraft have a retractable sunshade that fits the inside overhead curve of the canopy, they should be available for operators of the risen planes, surprised Porto does not offer them.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE MUZZLE AND THEY HAD DESIGNED IT TO BE MORE "BOUNDED", FROM THE NOSE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE "COOP", IN MY OPINION..... IT COULD HAVE BEEN MORE ATTRACTIVE IN AESTHETICS.

The plane has fantastic performance specs. Too bad they didn’t mention pricing nor do they seem to have it on their website. I fly in the Southern California/Arizona area and that large canopy with no air conditioning makes that aircraft unusable in my area. In Phoenix it can get up to about 115 F in the summer and conventional aircraft parked on the ramp can get up to 140 F in the cabin. With that large overhead glass area it would get so hot you would not be able to touch any of the surfaces after a few minutes of taxiing or flying in direct summer sunlight.

can you buy it now ?

IMC approved?

How robust is the gear? Can it handle grass runways?

whats a comparable 4 seater.. hmm, another plane probably with rotax turbo also?

So, he said the VNE is 210 knots. It's 388.5 km/h. Then why do they have a sign under the plane saying "450 km/h max cruise"?

Soap box orator !!! Show the airplane more !

İ see the plane in air show and look all of the details i liked the manufacturing qualty and sitting position its better than vl3 and in whole airshow shark and super veloce are the best well build air planes that i see, The only thing that i don't like on that plane is engine fitting they put 915 is engine like a car engine from tip to nearly under the cockpit area maintenance guys will hate this engine placement like pipistrel virus.. whole engine closed by ram air duck and hoses you can't see the back off the engine in any leakage or minor problem you have to remove too may pieces to handle that issue. İm pilot normally that's not my problem but in any minor issue you have to pay extra maintenance hours than any rotax powered plane. speed and low consuption comes with maintanace cost tag :) summery well build and robust frame.

This nice gentleman ripped me off for 5,000 EUR. In 2016, I placed a fully refundable deposit for an airplane but changed my mind a few months later and requested the deposit back. Sadly, I never received the refund. Since then, I've been pursuing legal action against them in Switzerland, their headquarters' country. I strongly advise against dealing with these scammers, despite the seemingly great airplane they offer.

gorgeous Airframe! im just not sure about that "added Nose" 👃that just seems very odd 🥴

Getting people to tunnel vision on fuel saving is an old trick, the auto industry did that to us around 1980. This plane cost roughly twice as much as competitors, call it $150,000 USD, I can buy a hell of a lot of gas for that saving. Maybe enough to fill up a Boeing 787?

It looks so much like a bird! Long live sparrows!

Did he say only 29 planes worldwide. That's a crime. As much as I'm a huge fan of the efficient design, it's better than anyone else in the world, correct me if I'm wrong, I think it's fair to say they have missed some marketing opportunities. For years the website had questionable english, the website is somehow split in two competing sites and when 915 versions starting coming to light, you could not find it on their website. People were taking delivery of the planes and it was not on their website. I heard a couple of americans were at the factory to claim self builds so they could get retractable gear versions of the 915. It's very difficult to get a price out of them as well but from what I gather their prices weren't outrageous, certainly competitive for the performance so there really should have been more of them than 29. Marketing is the difference between 29 and 290. Or more. With significant volume they could look at lowering the price and totally dominating the market. And take the next step to make it pressurized where it starts to really take off and even make small jet engines for it and take it to mach 0.7. Making a 4 seater would not be a quantum leap. FK14 is a german made UL that's also a great plane for the money. By all accounts should outsell everything other than Risen but their marketing is even worse. They stopped producing their best plane for 2 years because they felt like making some retro plane and they couldn't be bothered to create production capacity for both, let alone market them to 10x sales. It's one thing if yet another company puts together a so so plane but if you have the best planes, don't hide them. And indeed, in volume, some of these planes could be ultra cheap as well. Ignoring rotax, say a fixed gear UL without flaps, all carbon construction you might put together for 15k cost if you do it right. Because you can make the entire fuselage as one piece. No need for labor intensive clueing two shells together. Wings could be one shot too. If you can make well performing planes and be very profitable at 30k you might sell some planes. Give Rotax an ultimatum. Either sell their engines at reasonable cost or be replaced by small jet engines. They are not going to listen but then killem. Diamond should also have made jets instead of the herculean effort making turbodiesels, only to end up with a very heavy very expensive slow plane. Sure it runs on jetA but that's the extent of the upsides. Had they made small turbofans instead for a quarter weight plane, they would own GA.

I hope ethereum goes to 35k in next 6 year

Looks like quite low wing loading and all that implies.

I would like to see how much extra performance and speed a toroidal propeller would add.

Less talk more action.

Terrible video. Provide a little detail on the plane itself. Gibberish. It's like walking into a conversation between 2 oldfriends. So the viewer has little context.