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by carleverett 13y ago
Fortunately, there is little relationship between the flight characteristics of paper airplanes vs. actual airplanes. Stability is achieved in design aspects of the plane. For instance, dihedral wings (upward angled) are a big factor in s
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by carleverett 13y ago
A dual seater is in the plans, but the addition power and strength needed will up the price a decent amount. As a complete ballpark figure, a two-seater will be roughly $20k more than the single seater.
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by carleverett 13y ago
1) Unfortunately not. In airplanes, just as important as how much weight is in the aircraft is where that weight is. 230 lbs is the maximum pilot weight regardless of how much weight is in other parts of the plane. 2) By far, the single b
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by carleverett 13y ago
Yep this is correct. The other variable is that if you're taking advantage of the removable wings, it'll be about 10 minutes to throw those on and take those off before and after flight.
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by carleverett 13y ago
Thank you! The ballistic parachute is one of the 2 optional add-ons for our plane - the other being a Mode S Transponder for flight into Class B and C airspace. The ballistic parachute comes with a choice however, since getting one means y
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by carleverett 13y ago
It runs on mogas, but avgas can be used if an additive is mixed in. This way if you find yourself needing to land at an airport that only pumps avgas, you're set as long as you have that additive with you in your baggage compartment.
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by carleverett 13y ago
Definitely, aviation media has been pretty kind to us so far, I think the aviation community is pretty excited about us: http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/lsasport/skycraft-sd-1-min... http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2013/05/skycraft-
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by carleverett 13y ago
Exactly! Read my comment below on this.
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by carleverett 13y ago
That is my hope. I see a big practical use for airplanes like ours in the future for long work commutes. People already drive 2 hours through traffic in some cases to make it to work, just to keep their family in a nice neighborhood. Comm
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Show HN: A high performance airplane for the price of a luxury car
92 points by carleverett 13y ago|34 comments
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by carleverett 14y ago
About your last paragraph. It has always puzzled and bothered me that there is this popular notion that to truly understand the world is to be miserable and hopeless - that there exists this trade-off between knowledge and happiness. For m
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by carleverett 14y ago
Hacker news is a great haven for this. I don't know of any other place on the internet where such a large portion of the comments are constructive, civil, and enlightening. It really adds a ton of value to the content itself. Such a sham
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by carleverett 14y ago
True, but can you show me any fair measurement of effort that would support weapons innovation being the world's main priority right now?
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by carleverett 14y ago
"Right now Mankind's main priorities are in inventing weapons and finding most ingenious ways to kill each other." This comment is absurd. There are, what, maybe 100,000 people in the entire world right now actively working on creating new
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by carleverett 14y ago
I'd like to point out first that this author has an awful attitude, and I'd also like to point out that his opinion about the "flattened bell curve" of life is factually incorrect. Most studies show a linear improvement in happiness during
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by carleverett 14y ago
Socrates said the same about the invention of writing: "And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness
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by carleverett 14y ago
In the donation options, the 3:1 effect of the donation towards the goal is included, but I think it is misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a $50 donation will bring them $200 closer to the $600,000 goal, but will only bring them $50
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by carleverett 14y ago
I'm sorry but the first sentence made me laugh: "There are many ways to measure the traction of a social media platform: [3 ways, to be exact]"
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by carleverett 14y ago
http://www.skycraftairplanes.com - we're just selling kits now but we're pushing on being certified to sell ready to fly by this winter. What does a late-coming co-founder expect then in terms of equity in a typical company? Clearly I do
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by carleverett 14y ago
I am in a very similar situation right now. Near graduation in the spring I joined a start-up I was really excited about as a sort of unpaid intern - I basically offered to help them out free of charge. Unlike the article though, I was no
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by carleverett 14y ago
Only 1 graph? Is Chrome broken for me? I thought we were going to get more visual representations like the Twitter "follow" graph with 33 billion edges!
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by carleverett 14y ago
I thought it was a legitimate block at first. Half of my newsfeed is imgur links that pretty much all qualify as spam. It's one of the reasons I've moved away from Facebook. ...I don't want to sound like a crotchety "I'm leaving Facebook"
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19 year-old leaves USC for Pinterest(dailytrojan.com)
1 points by carleverett 14y ago|0 comments
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by carleverett 14y ago
I find this particularly true for the "163 Ways to Pursue Excellence" book. I haven't read it, but the idea is laughable. Am I supposed to be "pursuing excellence" while I sit on the toilet with this "very compelling and browsable book"?
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by carleverett 14y ago
This backs up Hans Rosling's talk on "The best statistics you've ever seen" pretty well: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... The world is definitely improving - from a health perspective. Of course you could
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by carleverett 14y ago
This is a really bad argument. First of all with the understanding by the public that your Facebook status is not necessarily your organ donor status, there is no stigma. Then your edit... organ donations are a good thing just not as good
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by carleverett 14y ago
Good point. Also in most situations data collection goes far beyond 1,000 customers at little to no additional cost. This doesn't necessarily break the author's point though since if there was tremendous value to this data, programs like G