Raptor aircraft

18 January 2019, 07:26

Canuck32

Raptor aircraft

Here is an interesting carbon fiber home built canard aircraft Raptor
They are building the prototype and have twice weekly update videos on their progress

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18 January 2019, 20:08

Bill/Oregon

That looks like a beautiful and capable ship. All the canards I recall seeing are small single seaters. Can't wait until the prototype is completed and she flies.

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18 January 2019, 22:42

richj

The beech was bigger and didn't make it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lOxG071uQ

19 January 2019, 18:32

Bill/Oregon

Glad to hear there are five Starships still flying.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
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23 January 2019, 08:31

NormanConquest

Bill,I never took you for a member of the aviation crowd. My interest is in the blood. My dad was a fighter pilot that flew the F-100,F-101,+ the F-105 in Nam for 3 missions (100 ea). He let me me fly his personal Beech (w/him in control) but I was never a real pilot,just barely qualified as an airplane driver.Bear in mind that I was 12 years old.

Never mistake motion for action.

23 January 2019, 08:33

NormanConquest

BTW,as I said in the blood,my Uncle Harold was a waist gunner in a B-17.

Never mistake motion for action.

23 January 2019, 18:39

Bill/Oregon

Randy, all four of my uncles served in the Army Air Corps in WWII, and Dad was one of those guys who would run out the front door just to watch a Hughes Air West 707 go over. I don't fly, but I love an air show!

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
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26 January 2019, 08:55

NormanConquest

Bill,keep your eyes open for any airshows that involve the great warbirds that are restored by the Lone Star Air Force.A lifelong buddy of mine is instrumental in their reconstruction.Doug Ratchford. You know what they say,that + a buck will get you a cup of coffee.