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Looks like a absolutely brilliant way to separate potentially billions from the gullible but rich. Fools are money are easily separated 🤑

I bet a lot cheaper than a aero version by miles. Naturally a Drifter with even the 125hp would be a real hoot on floats.

Yes , it's a optimised for speed and light. It really would be a superbike weight and faster than a hypercar in the air. It is a not meant for a luxury ride as a record breaker but could be throttled back for a smoother ride as a sport flyer. It would be a burn holes through the sky machine. A more sane version at 240 mph would still be awesome 😎. No it won't be a low speed pussycat but that's the trade-off. As a mini rocketship. No need to chase records, then build to 350 kg or more depending on range required. You travel a lot of ground at those speeds. Why build a jet sonex when you could blow it away with a stroker far cheaper.

I think you fellas have the wrong airframe in mind, but all's fair when "in thrust we trust". My devious mind immediately jumps to a new FAI 300 kg record breaker.. High G, high Vne to take full advantage of such a powerful light engine. The Arnold Ar5 did 213mph on 65hp what could a 165hp more advanced design do?🤔 I am confident such a beast could blow the record easily. Anyone for 280mph? Naughty thoughts I know, but damn that would be awesome.

Weather they add a Rotax or not, the Jabiru motors are a hit even in military drones. That alone is a huge emerging market far exceeding any meat bag carriers. I love the Jabawocky and it's near refusal to let pilots kill themselves. History proves they are amazing in a crash. And are easily repaired. Compare that to other plastics and crushable tin cans on sale- no contest. Can they be improved? Sure but don't make it overpriced. Anything a 152 or 172 Cessna can do a Jabawocky can do at a fraction of the price and will keep you alive far more often. The old cesspools just have lots of weight to crush like a lead coke can. New wings and nicer insides would be great but not if the price explodes.

Hope they are capitalised and smart enough to lead the Jabawocky crew

Actually so far from a BMW it could be a pile of toymotors. That Fwd package is not BMW just by the non all alloy suspension. But yes the big power V8 twin turbos are heat stressed, but often abused and this shows the weaker bits. Mercedes are also guilty will the 6.3 breaking cranks when driven by young rich blokes( dealers?). Same with newer turbo models. If you expect race engine power expect to break stuff. 500hp means a 600hp plus heat generator plus friction, loads etc and more torque makes twisty cranks etc. No free lunch. But I agree the cost of replacement for all those hoses, o-rings, gaskets etc can be heart breaking. For a well serviced non abused engine they will determine engine life. Head gaskets rarely go without a simple hose or radiator/ pump belt failure. Give me a simple Alfa Romeo atmo engine any day.

Beautiful kit and same for the work. She will fly like the purring mistress you create. Just beware they can be very jealous- never store weapons in reach of mistress.

You mean to say Rod is no longer Stiff? Viagra would rise the balance sheet.

It's not a single engine at all, but a pile a stuff from at least one complete fwd engine/gearbox/ suspension plus heaps of other random other car bits crammed on top. Note the extra fwd gearbox crammed at the back, could be from all wheel drive setup but doubt it. Looks like another separate motor and it's crap all shoved together to cramm into a storage spot etc.. I could be wrong but ....

You guys... Obviously know nought about horses.. It was Pegasus and he was doing a cross wind takeoff when attack by a Jabiru.

Back on topic. What keeps aircraft in the air? Tricky but I have seen a lot fly but look very awkward doing it...so it must be ... Ugliness - the earth repels them from disgust. And since I live under the training area for the F-35, it is ugliness, huge sound and billions of your 💰

Don't worry a Jabiru looked sideways at it before takeoff, so must be a Jabiru at fault.,

On the track real cars you can buy, real racing. Like 105 Alfas menacing ford GT's et al and Alan Jones showing em how it's done in the 2.5 V6 Alfa beating all but the fastest V8s to the flag at Bathurst. Real cars that can be driven hard all day long on road or track. The euro cams equivalent hobbled the Alfa every year from 68-72 but could not stop it winning the euro touring cars five years in a row. Only stopped by opening the class to 3.0 litre to give the Capri and BMW CSL a chance. A V6 504 would have been a dog given the PRV V6 shared with Volvo, not a lot of power for a lot of weight. Supercars attempt to be fair and let others play was hobbled by rules to suit the locals, hence the fastest was the Volvo V8( designed by Yamaha) was rev and intake restricted to ensure failure. A bit like racing Hussien Bolt after cutting one of his lungs out. The Ron Harrop retirement funded by cams rules. Bloody parochial aussies

Good ol Cams will screw you if the local stuff gets beaten, they must maintain the V8 supercars myth. Bring back grp A and C, actual cars not sillouttes

Real speed equals Rolls Royce Olympus

They definitely will be a big hit in the drone market esp for long range quadcopters as a generator. Just like Jabiru are used in lots of military drones now. As a generator/ battery extender it has a future.

Yes, Two grades of Pugsley 404 and 504, either CKD kits built on lines with other bad cars or the fully french version which are amazingly well built and vault like. Had many 504 in family but best was blue one from France, a huge difference and same car still cruises the south coast after 50 years. Incredibly comfortable and a superb ride. Pugs won lots of rally and reliability trials like Redex. A 504 was everything a ford or Holden was not and very long lived simple motor- easy 500,000km if well treated. The Holden and Ford's of the time rarely did 100,000 before throwing a rod or been rebuilt. The Commodores were quickish but poorly built even the last of them. In 2017 the final was only as good as a 1988 e34 BMW, The 1996 E39 was a massive leap. The bombodore rear end was a poor copy of very old BMW tech. Even worse the entire VR series had misaligned rear suspension from faulty jigs.Holden knew but refused to fix it until the VS came out with updated and new ( 30 year old design) independent rear . VR models will kill you given a chance. They deliberately sold unsafe cars and got away with it. People died in accidents that should never have happened. How do you know a Commodore is scared of trees? They split in half just looking at a tree. No caring parent should ever let their kids drive a Commodore. The V8 utes are perfect to quickly carry a huge ego to a fast grave, aka the tradie killer. They make a valiant charger seem stable and safe. Reliable? There is a reason no cabbie ever kept a commode long term.

Endless growth is a negative sum game, you can only lose. That is the real picture, we have outgrown our ability to live within our environment, unfortunately that is a the whole planet. We are the ultimate predator able to adapt to any environment from land to the depths of sea and onto space. The ability to transfer cultural knowledge and technology has far exceeded our ability to acknowledge our destructive nature. The great extinction 65 million years ago from a cataclysmic asteroid strike is been repeated but by a bipedal mammal,Homo Destructus. Today the seas of the Mediterranean and English, Northern seas are up to 5 Celcius above normal. That is a scenario expected in 30 years by climatologists, it is a urgent issue. Oceans ecosystems are threatened with complete collapse. The idea of the great iced Himalayan ranges melting and flooding India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is now a reality. Pakistan has been devastated by flooding from melt. My fellow humans it is clearly apparent that Homo Destructus is a genetically engineered experiment on a biological Doomsday machine. We are acting like a cancer on the planet and it acts accordingly. Meanwhile China has jumped ahead in the mass transition to electrification of transport. This year it will be the world's largest car exporter, and races ahead in all aspects of batteries etc. Great it should be acknowledged they grabbed the 4 th industrial revolution by the horns, the same with solar. Where would we be if China not had pushed forward on solar, Australia made it possible and would not back it? I need a another beer

I think it a absolute moral duty to instantly wake all the passengers via adrenaline. Then they get to watch the crew escape ala F111 in the cockpit module... Then a hologram of Greta Thunberg appears saying " you have been selected for a Darwin award due to your rich lifestyle" and she laughs and laughs... It clearly would be unethical to let them sleep through the award presentation.

This is a perfect example of man's pursuit in wrecking the planet and burning cash for the ego brag of flying Death Star airways. All tickets should include contract requirements of losing all assets to fight climate change and a permanent free home in the middle of a desert. Just a happy 🤔

Glad the PIC has survived and will recover, a bad day at work with a life saving Jabiru airframe. The cocky shit trainee should take up skydiving and learn to fall instead of fly. Once again the Jabbawocki has proven it's great ability to shed loads in a crash. Two walking away is a hell of a example of safety in design.

The reporter was heard to say, " this Cessna was water bombing and ran out of air"

When I first heard a 737 went down, my first reaction was........another maintenance free Qantas flight. Obviously Alan Joyce was quick to repaint the tail. Glad pilots are Ok.

And naturally the turnback was the best Qantas option. Screw the passengers and make it convenient for the small engineer team, that could have been flown in on the next flight. Very much the Joyce way of doing things.