Thanks for the link. Sad read, but informational nonetheless.
I can't speak on behalf of the company, I can only say that from the 2 owners I've spoken with... The new company made significant changes to the main rotor head, tail boom and tail rotor in the past few years. Both owners have the newer 400 models ( one with with over 300 hours) and they have had no problems to date.
I'm going to at least go look at one always knowing that...
"Experimental" means just that.
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I know the owners and i know the Company, after what they did to my Commuter H-1B at sun-n-fun I have no use for them.
when a company has a viberation issue with the tail boom and the way they fix it is to sandwich the tailboom arms between 2 sections of alum. plate, this does not impress me.
just so you know I know what I am talking about, here is a pic of my old Commuter H-1B and the then new Safari 400 at sun-n-fun 2012
Safari had told us if we brought the Commuter down they would demo it for us and fly the pattern with it so I could get it sold, instead the next morning we see a big sign between the 2 using the Commuter as a way of showing their so called improvements. In fact Delane killed the sale of my machine when a guy asked if it was going to be flown while there as he had came in to look at buying it. I told him Bobby was going to fly it, this is what I had been told. Next thing I know Delane sticks her head of of the trailer and say oh no bobbys not going to fly that thing. the rotor head is dangerous at altitude.
yet this is the same style head mark flew from Canada with in the first baby belle to sun-n-fun with out even having a ground support team.
Also they only hovered it around and never flew the pattern with it as promised. This was after they had decided I did not have enough negative pitch in the blades and decided to adjust them using a piece of paper and the horizon on unlevel ground. when I got back to n.c. with it I was going to demo it for a buyer, just get it light on the skids, it shook so bad we had to shut it down. I took it back into my shop and found 1 blade was set at 1degree and the other at 3 degrees pitch. keep in mind before I took it there it had been set up on the chadwick perfectly. how bruce flew it as long as he did I will never know.
All I can say is buyer beware.
note that is Bobby checking where the fuel tank mount broke on the Demo ship. after just being flown off the trailer. they had to get it rewelded before they could do any demo flights.