Pic related is the german Bf 109 Messerschmitt. First prosuced and flown in 1935.. going on 100 years ago.
Why can we not have cheap personal aircraft? The BF 109 if mass produced without miitary armaments and with japanese engines or a tesla engine should be not much more expensive than a car to produce.
The technology is basically perfected at this point, there is no reeason for a cessna to cost the amount that it does. I want my electric bf109 for 100k on 5 years interest free finance with warranty and servicing included.
I always liked the idea of having a 'suit' that negated body weight like a wetsuit with an exoskeleton of tubes that were filled with a gas lighter than air to negate bone density enough to 'use' wings even without wings you could theoretically 'reduce gravity' and so 'hop' large distances you could 'add' a 'smaller than normally required' kite to 'sail' with etc idk why nobody has tried this desu maybe the 'gas' required would be substantial and the human frame to small to mount adequate buoyancy or the 'gas' itself too expensive to 'test'
I think that 'angle' would be best for 'personal' as if you crash not much happen 'cept you splat - and piloting a bomb is a security risk by comparison
WWII planes were notoriously difficult to fly. A super cheap Cessna would be a better option.
Carson Brooks
FAA regulations. Most private planes are still running engines that were designed back when cars had tailfins because it costs too much to certify new designs. You want airplanes for the working man? Then you gotta fix the FAA.
Lincoln Rodriguez
All the parts have to have provenance. It's a whole lot of red tape to track down the faulty bolt that sheared and caused a plane to crash into a school so it drives up the maintenance costs extremely high. You could probably cobble something together that would get you airborne but it would be extremely painful. A lot of the seed plane guys I talked to in your country didnt exactly seem like millionaires but the plane was their whole day. Ran on red diesel though, that's pretty cool.
Brayden Ortiz
You going to redesign the shitty undercarriage of the 109?....or all the other serious problems that plagued these machines? Buy a cessna....
Caleb White
They did give away planes for free to people after ww1 though, like if you bought a tank of fuel you got the plane because of surplus so maybe its just bureaucrats not wanting anyone to enjoy themselves anymore. That's where you got all the crazy plane stunts in the early days of cinema because they were basically free so who cares if they got wrecked.
Isaac Edwards
Technology stagnates and declines since the 70s. Leftism is in charge of the regulators. If the white man fled far enough (Mars) and was free again you’d have an explosion in all this technology, including personal planes
Bentley Edwards
Unironically because of regulations and that’s it Ultralight aircraft are really cheap as fuck and you can even make one at home. Flying it though? Prepare for a ton of bullshit. >B-BUT ITS DANGEROUS so are motorbikes and being fat and living near Niggers
Bro in the US we have 'light sport aircraft' and you can buy a airplane relatively cheap, like 130,000 US or so. A modern general Cessna is like half million dollars its absolutely outrageous, and my grandfather was able to own one in like 1971 when the prices were reasonable.
But then again you have maintenance ..and..annual inspections, so expensive that if someone gave you a plane for free, you would probably go broke soon trying to just keep it.
Only people besides super rich who can afford airplanes now, are professional level mechanics who do their own maintenance on experimental designated aircraft.
Alexander Diaz
>idk why nobody has tried this desu go strap a balloon to yourself, see how big it needs to be for you to float
Adam Foster
yes perhaps we can redesign. i mean materials science has come a lonf way since 1935. and indeed could be any aircraft, spitfire same thing... spitfire nade oit of carbon fibre with a tesla engine and battery pack in the wings?
im no aviation engineer but it doesnt seem thart hard.
if not trsla, why not a a honda engine from a 2020 civic.. surely thats more efficient and reliable than a 1940s spitfire engine?
the joy of flight is being kept from us.
(actually upon some research licencing is pretty cheal ere in aus, about 16k anf 100 hours, and can get a plane for less than the price of a tesla. finance might be hard but its doable. i might do it if my monkey pox shares take off)
FAA makes every aspect of owning a plane incredibly expensive. Even changing the oil will cost you a thousand or more dollars. And you can't just land some future VTOL aircraft in your backyard. Every airstrip in the United States has to have FAA staff at it 24/7.
>Only people besides super rich who can afford airplanes now, are professional level mechanics who do their own maintenance on experimental designated aircraft
ah the maintainence ofc.
i have a 15 year old car, never breaks down why planes so shitty and expensive to repair? sure the standard needs to be a but higher because the stakes are higher, but still. theres no reason for to cost what it does.
same as helicopters and drones.
perhaps its like the 2nd amendment? ie they dont want the plebs have planes as its a threat to the state.
you dont need roads if you have a plane and thus why pay taxes? (dirty libs first response to anti tax talk is “dont u like roads huh”).
Our nation js huge and if you had a plane you could live in the desert well away from the reach of the state.
Evan Lewis
You'll own nothing and be happy
Caleb Turner
imagine if could land that sucker in a suburban culdesac.
Daniel Carter
A bf-109 cost 56000 Reichsmarks and took 7000 man hours to produce in 1941 - equivalent to $2.8 million freedombucks in the current year. Airplanes were never cheap.
