Craig,
Thanks for the updates on this and please keep them coming, great work you’re all doing there.
I’m new to homebuilding having just started my RV-10 tailcone, but not to product development. It’s one thing to develop great technology but another to be commercially successful with it. You can have the best solution for any given challenge, but if market conditions are against you it can be almost impossible to build a business around it. Until those conditions change or you find a better application. If engine manufacturers are able to utilize decades-old machinery to make proven engines at low cost but can sell them for high prices, that’s hard to compete with. Until fuel options change, for example. Disruption is hard, but it’s amazing when it happens. Before it happens, most people think it is impossible. When it does, most people say it was inevitable. It never was and it never is—it takes relentless developers to keep pushing and bridge the gap.
Kudos to you and the team and I wish you best of luck. By the time I get to my FWF kit, I look forward to having another engine option to choose from.
Thanks for the updates on this and please keep them coming, great work you’re all doing there.
I’m new to homebuilding having just started my RV-10 tailcone, but not to product development. It’s one thing to develop great technology but another to be commercially successful with it. You can have the best solution for any given challenge, but if market conditions are against you it can be almost impossible to build a business around it. Until those conditions change or you find a better application. If engine manufacturers are able to utilize decades-old machinery to make proven engines at low cost but can sell them for high prices, that’s hard to compete with. Until fuel options change, for example. Disruption is hard, but it’s amazing when it happens. Before it happens, most people think it is impossible. When it does, most people say it was inevitable. It never was and it never is—it takes relentless developers to keep pushing and bridge the gap.
Kudos to you and the team and I wish you best of luck. By the time I get to my FWF kit, I look forward to having another engine option to choose from.