New Horizons Components

[MattPearson]

Check out this website.
http://www.newhorizonscomponentsllc.com/

[barnstorm2]

Yes, he mentions his plans in Born Free, Marion Springers book.

I can't wait to see how things start to turn out.

[MattPearson]

I've been meaning to read that book. I hear it's pretty good.

[Brent_Brown]

This is great I would like to be a part of it. but the 150 mph speed of a gyro is hard for me to see. what is he doing to get that out of a gyro. I would be happy to see 100 mph.

[chuter]

From the website:
"This affordable, safe, and reliable design gives the public a way to not only have fun flying, but also commute to work with what we call a Fly-Drive Vehicle.
To produce and finance 1,000 single place kits and 100 two-place Golden Butterfly training aircraft kits along with bolt on modifications that turn them into flying cars. Because they have three wheels they are licensed as a motorcycle."

I also saw the name "Mohler" in there somewhere; sounds like pie-in-the-sky stuff to me.
The same old "airplane in every garage" idea. :rolleyes:

[barnstorm2]

Michael,

Yes, it is a shame that some good ideas get a stigma attached to them because they have failed in the past as commercial successes.

Pitcarn may have succeeded were it not for the economy of the time.

One advantage I see here is that he is not making a motorcycle fly he is making a gyro drive.

Another advantage is that you don't have to use the drive option. The Monarch and Golden can both be flown for ever as they are with no drive option. You can convert or add-on the drivability option later, at any time or not at all.

BTW for my first year of gyro ownership my gyro hangar was my garage. I would trailer it to the airport to fly. So in a way most of our gyros are already pie-in-the sky aircraft in the garage.

Even the FAA is talking about making a 'sky-highway' system. Who knows?

[quadrirotor]

Sky-highway=Sky-jail!...

[ahancock]

When you drive it, how do you protect the blades?
Alan