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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:37:12 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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   @Royper What’s funny is that the stuff that you would think would fail ended up winning tremendously. The Cirrus isn’t a fun plane to fly, it handles like a drive by wire SUV, and it’s super expensive. But it’s been the hottest selling marque for like, 15 years straight now. Because it’s not marketing to pilots, it’s marketing to people who have a mission.

   Too many aircraft designers try to chase the wrong thing. Another would-be failure: The carbon cub. Who would have guessed you could get people to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the same damn plane their grandpa laughed at? Well, turns out a whole lot of rich guys love to buy the fantasy of being a rugged adventurer. Carbon cub is the only GA brand I can think of that actually came out and listed itself on the stock market. Usually they’re only taken off.

   Sure, the cub brand will probably die off w/ the boomers, it doesn’t hold as much romance for younger guys (our youngest is like, 49 yo to buy one IIRC. But most CC stuff sells direct)

   I like this thing, but it’s not been around long enough to fail just yet. I just like the optimism of selling homebuilt turboprop caravans. I doubt they’ll make more than 50, their facilities are charmingly uh…..old fashioned (i.e. looks like your garage) but they have their finger on the pulse of what weirdos up north want in a plane, and with MOSAIC they just might be able to have some kind of market for a piston engined variant. (understanding I’m an autist/pilot, so for me I overlook the ugliness and actually buy the spec sheet, which is why I’m not the guy who can afford one IRL)