Does anyone remember...

Posted:
Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:08 pm
by C
...Richard Noble's big project following on from Thrust SSC - to make a modern affordable air taxi. It was called the Farnborough F1 - and nothing had really been heard of it for several years - until now...
It flew last month!
http://www.farnborough-aircraft.com/(and it's now called the Kestrel!)

Re: Does anyone remember...

Posted:
Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:27 am
by gryshnak
Coming from the man behind Thrust SSC (which deserved far more publicity and praise than it got), I took a look at this new bird.
It's fast. It's sleek It's comfortable. It's economical. It'll maybe revolutionise that particular sphere of air transport. But many GA planes these days have curves in all the wrong places, and this is one of them!
Hopefully it'll make more profit than Thrust SSC ever did...
Gryshnak
Re: Does anyone remember...

Posted:
Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:54 pm
by Jakemaster
It looks like a cross between a PC-12, TBM700, and Eclipse 500.