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I wouldn't, not even in a turbo. at 12k feet you were looking for an absolute ass beating.

basically dead. vaporware, never existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar

works great, there's a 63c posted 5 or six times it works so well.

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I know a guy that has one but he wants $450. Too much for me. Here's his email tmoth25@yahoo.com phone 8084438506 his name is adrian I do not know him. I just asked him about the one he was selling a few weeks ago.

I believe a similar situation happened when obama was in seattle a couple years ago. OR guard out of PDX zipped out there. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2010/august/19/sonic-booms-shock-seattle-as-f-15s-respond-to-tfr-violation

rare clear, warm, calm day along the rocks today. Jumped to leadville and back before work. 1.2 round trip. LXV of course is 9,933 ft MSL. Nice flight, smooth as glass. Quick touch and go at LXV and home. Love that rocket power.

I took the rocket on a 30 minute hop today, 14,5 out and 15,5 back.... But there were big rocks in the way. I showed 1500+fpm the whole time, no worries at all. Thing was born to climb. Anyway, I still think the m22 is slick as snot, but the fantasy vs the reality is probably scary (and expensive)

it's 1-1/2" square steel tube, 1/8" wall. they were out of 1-1/4 and 1" was too small. it's a wheelchair battery, 22 amp hour, and a winch for an ATV. the cables, one runs to the jaws to open and close them, and the other disengages the clutch on the winch so it can freewheel. When the jaws are open, winch is free, when closed, it's engaged. One lever with an over center lock and two cables. the drive wheel is from northern tool, and like Don Muncey's tug design I had the winch reel turned down to accept a sprocket and cut a keyway and ran #35 roller chain to drive it. I built his design first and used a lot of his ideas on my own frame. the controls are standard remote winch controls from ebay, a switch and a contactor mounted by your thumb to go forward or reverse. I might be biased, but I think it works better than the gas powertow it replaced. I'll shorten and clean up the wiring someday... maybe. It could be a little shorter but I wanted leverage and weight on the wheel for traction.

hey, it works.

midfield generally, but I fly pretty tight patterns.

I dunno why. If I'm going long range, say 1.5 hours or more, I go high. I have looked at the ad for that m22 before and thought having a nearly one of a kind airplane is way out of my budget. Imagine when all the little seals that keep the pressurization in start getting old and cracking. I'm sure they're unobtanium.

not sure I saved any money over buying a used one, but I had fun anyway. maybe it'll work. They really get you on small quantities of metal.

$400

Idk if it's compatible but I have a new old stock of the newer comant style.

Intermittent operation.

Yes, it can get gummed up. You can take it out and soak it for a few hours in carb cleaner and reinstall to see if it helps, it did ours.

You said a ferry tank was expensive, any chance of a ferry permit to get it to Willmar? They could do the tanks and the annual.

They're already testing a drone shield at a few airports. Well, one anyway

Boy, that's an awful lot of speculation.

it's not even a question, I want the step. the only question is how much it'll cost and how much hassle. it's been so windy I haven't really messed with the plane much to look and see if they did anything dumb when they removed it.

I have a ky197 comm sitting on my desk, I have no tray or any idea if it works. You're welcome to it.

Yeah, I wouldn't go back either.

My main problem with a 1500 Aspen is the 500mfd can't run revisionary mode with the 1000 pfd, so if something happens and just the screen quits you're screwed. It's much worse than a single instrument failure in a 6 pack. At least with a 1000 mfd it can run revisionary mode.

there was a thread a few months ago on them, it's the first I had heard of them, I don't know why. They sound fantastic.