Jim Heffelfinger
05-23-2012, 01:46 PM
Synergy Aircraft.
Some in the experimental world are skeptics , not early adopters – wait and see types. When that great new whatever comes out and the wait-and-sees just watch from the sidelines - the project falters – unable to sustain itself past the observation period. The skeptics just say – well, I guess it wasn’t such a good thing – it never made it past the prototype. I’m glad I didn’t buy into that one. Is that you ?
So, along comes Synergy – it’s radical and to some just weird. It is trying to combine a half dozen engineering concepts all at once – because they are so interactive. It defies common engineering design programs - because they were based on last century’s status quo. It doesn’t even look like an airplane and it’s using a near prototype engine.
The bleachers of “wait and see” are filling fast.
I think of another visionary who has yet to stop being a game changer – He too had to buck the ‘wait and sees’ of the time but the Rutan designs came when the American homebuilder was young and open to things that defied convention. Heck, a whole generation was looking to challenge convention in every facet of our world. It was the period of hang gliding, ultralights, gyros, PPG, trikes, and a dozen other designs.
Imagination has moved into the computer and internet arenas with only a few still impassioned to aviation. Do we want aviation to grow?
We as experimental aircraft supporters have a chance to get off the side line, to leave the bleachers and move on to the court – to put on our imagination again and support something that might be a game changer.
Skeptics – So what if Synergy only delivers 50% on claims? Then we are still way ahead of the way we have done things for the last 75 years.
I encourage you to take a moment and pledge to help make a difference in aircraft design. To support pushing back the status quo. To join the Wrights and Rutans and all in between as visionaries.
Get off the bleachers.
Be experimenters again.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/launchsynergy/synergy-aircraft-project
Some in the experimental world are skeptics , not early adopters – wait and see types. When that great new whatever comes out and the wait-and-sees just watch from the sidelines - the project falters – unable to sustain itself past the observation period. The skeptics just say – well, I guess it wasn’t such a good thing – it never made it past the prototype. I’m glad I didn’t buy into that one. Is that you ?
So, along comes Synergy – it’s radical and to some just weird. It is trying to combine a half dozen engineering concepts all at once – because they are so interactive. It defies common engineering design programs - because they were based on last century’s status quo. It doesn’t even look like an airplane and it’s using a near prototype engine.
The bleachers of “wait and see” are filling fast.
I think of another visionary who has yet to stop being a game changer – He too had to buck the ‘wait and sees’ of the time but the Rutan designs came when the American homebuilder was young and open to things that defied convention. Heck, a whole generation was looking to challenge convention in every facet of our world. It was the period of hang gliding, ultralights, gyros, PPG, trikes, and a dozen other designs.
Imagination has moved into the computer and internet arenas with only a few still impassioned to aviation. Do we want aviation to grow?
We as experimental aircraft supporters have a chance to get off the side line, to leave the bleachers and move on to the court – to put on our imagination again and support something that might be a game changer.
Skeptics – So what if Synergy only delivers 50% on claims? Then we are still way ahead of the way we have done things for the last 75 years.
I encourage you to take a moment and pledge to help make a difference in aircraft design. To support pushing back the status quo. To join the Wrights and Rutans and all in between as visionaries.
Get off the bleachers.
Be experimenters again.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/launchsynergy/synergy-aircraft-project