I shot a trailer for these guys up in Washington state back in 2006. It was to be submitted to discovery channel as a TV series documentary series following the brothers as they assembled the airplanes as well as kit builders who bought one. I can see little snippets from my video that I made in this RU-vid video. 😊
Great video! The issue with the driveshaft is about torsional harmonic resonance. Molt Taylor and the IMP got it figured out long ago. I wish this effort the best!
@shalakabooyaka1480 but you are just not getting anything for your money. Which is mostly likely why it didn't take off "no pun intended" why wouldnt you just get an l39 which is good to go and preforms better. ,proven airframes etc...
You do realize that the T-38 and F-5 are essentially the same plane right? So saying it looks like a mix of the two really doesn't make sense. Choose either of the two and the Folland Gnat and that would make sense.
It's not that simple-- the man with too much money doesn't want to spend $500K and 5 years building a 2 seater. Rich guys want to buy a working rocket. Basic misunderstanding in the original blokes.
It is even less simple than that… The guy with too much money… Has enough mechanical skill to build… Or has even more money to have somebody else build it… Doesn’t want to own the A model. Nobody wants to fly the A model… Few would want to fly the first 10 serial numbers of the B model either… Personally, my preference is to own one that is a decade old, with 1k hrs on it already… Infant mortality of new airplanes is a real thing… having a failure of the engine will cost a mint. Landing in a field at high speeds is going to be uncomfortable…. So Viper team…. Get started! I want to buy one 10years from now…. From somebody that has done the break-in flights…. 😃
