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Dan Johnson
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ByDanJohnson.com on RUclips covers Light-Sport Aircraft, light kit-built aircraft, and ultralight aircraft… all occupying the "affordable" end of aviation. Videos are generally short (3 minutes). Please visit ByDanJohnson.com for much more plus many resources useful to people interested in recreational or sport aviation.
My LSA Maker Is Out of Business, What Do I Do?
Here at the ByDanJohnson.com site, we get questions all the time related to aircraft whose companies are defunct or have gone on to something else. "Where can I find this part?" "How do I get documentation?" Sometimes we have the answers and sometimes we don't. But it's something we talk about every week, so in this video we discuss tactics for owners and potential owners of "rare" LSAs. What are the resources available to you? How can you get those parts you need?
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Duck Seaplane-July 2024 …Affordable?
Просмотров 12 тыс.3 месяца назад
Affordability and seaplanes rarely go together. These aircraft get more complex and that translates to more money. Add inflation and the seaplane market has gotten, well… expensive. Seamax designer Miguel Rosario may have an answer as he prepared a seaplane variant for Brazil's Fly Fox company. Check out this first-flight video and go visit ByDanJohnson.com for more details and contact info.
Light Sport Aircraft in the Rearview: Dan Johnson Remembers the Beginning
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.4 месяца назад
Want to know the truth about an era, ask someone who was there. Dan Johnson joins the Affordable Aviation editor Marc Cook for a stroll through LSA history. Now that MOSAIC is more or less around the corner, with huge changes for the Light Sport and Sport Pilot categories, we felt it was worth a look back to the head days of 2004 when the LSA thing became a reality.
TrueLite Wing Fold
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.4 месяца назад
Chip Erwin folds the wing of his TrueLite ultralight in real time for the camera.
Chipper in Florida 0424
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.4 месяца назад
Belite Aviation developer James Weibe created the Chipper kit-built aircraft following the design of several predecessor airplanes. Most unfortunately, a fire caused irreparable damage to Belite. Facing other responsibilities, James took the opportunity to sell the enterprise to younger and highly enthusiastic owners Nick and Charlotte Jones of Dunnellon, Florida. In this video, learn how the c...
MOSAIC Roundtable with Dan Johnson, Scott Severen and Marc Cook
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Join ByDanJohnson.com founder Dan Johnson along with LAMA president Scott Severen and BDJ.com managing editor Marc Cook for a roundtable discussion to suss out where the MOSAIC program is today, when we should expect to see more news on the effort and, well, just a little prognostication.
Dragonfly by Bobby Bailey 0424
Просмотров 5 тыс.5 месяцев назад
One particularly distinctive light aircraft is Dragonfly, so named because its initial mission was to tow (drag) hang gliders aloft to release them into thermal lift. Created in the 1990s by equally distinctive designer Bobby Bailey, Dragonfly has become an essential workhorse at hang glider clubs and airports. However, Dragonfly can also do work such as crop spraying and more to come. Learn ne...
TL Sparker Mosaic LSA 0224
Просмотров 40 тыс.8 месяцев назад
The first Sparker in the country landed at my home airport so I could do a flight review. This video interviews U.S. import Trey Murdaugh as he introduces American pilots to a gleaming example of the new Mosaic Light-Sport Aircraft coming in second quarter 2025. This videos offers in-flight views and lots of detail examination visuals to show you what Sparker offers. This is one deluxe LSA.
Lift Hexa VPR 0124
Просмотров 9959 месяцев назад
LSA pilot report of a Part 103 multicopter as new LAMA president Scott Severen, a longtime LSA pilot, takes his first flight in Hexa by Lift Aircraft. See close-up aerial maneuvers and learn more about this fascinating aircraft that literally anyone can safely fly with only minimal simulator training. You've seen these before but not flown by people just like you and me.
AVI Swan LE 1223 - Affordable, Foldable, Refreshed
Просмотров 107 тыс.9 месяцев назад
AVI's Swan has been popular since I first began reporting on this affordable, foldable airplane from Romania. Priced in the low $30,000s (USD), Swan.can qualify as a Part 103 (120-kilo class in Europe) so it must meet only the lightest regulation. ••• In the USA no pilot license, aircraft registration, or aviation medical is needed. Affordable, foldable freedom you can take home and store in a ...
Powrachute AirWolf 1123
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Powered parachutes - To some they look ungainly but once you get to know this particular kind of aircraft, you'll change your viewpoint. Powered parachutes, sometimes abbreviated as PPCs, offer one of the most open aerial viewing platforms you can find. Getting a pilot license for one is the easiest and fastest in all of powered aviation. Plus they are affordable and you can buy one ready-to-fl...
Merlin 103 Ultralight Floatplane 1123
Просмотров 11 тыс.10 месяцев назад
When Chip Erwin - of Aeromarine-LSA.com - created Merlin, many did not expect it to become a full line of models. The all-aluminum single seater is loaded with features yet it can make Part 103's tight weight constraints, meaning no medical (or pilot license) is required. That Merlin does so in a fully-enclosed, three-axis aircraft furthers the amazement but perhaps the best part is how afforda...
Mosaic…What's In It For You? 0923
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
Mosaic is FAA's proposed regulation for Light-Sport Aircraft, kits that Sport Pilots may fly, and more. Mosaic is a daunting 318-page regulatory proposal and YOU NEED TO COMMENT-! This video was recorded during a 45-minute presentation given at the Midwest LSA Expo in early September 2023. (The comment window closes on October 23, 2023.) A lengthy listener comment section is interpreted on a we...
Oshkosh 2023 Summary
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.Год назад
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is the largest aviation event in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands from every corner of the Earth. It's so big and inclusive that examining every aircraft on the field is impossible. In this video, shot while being interviewed on EAA Radio, host J Mont G and I try to skim the highlights of this remarkable airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Even if you attended you may ...
Flying mag promo 0723
Просмотров 757Год назад
Every pilot alive knows Flying magazine, I think. It is arguably -the- most recognized aviation magazine in the world. Barely two years ago businessman and aviation enthusiast Craig Fuller bought the storied title, but that was just the beginning of his aviation magazine acquisitions… among them ByDanJohnson.com. If you're at Oshkosh 2023, come by their space and say "Hi!"
Building Light-Sport Aircraft Aircraft in Ukraine in 2022
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Building Light-Sport Aircraft Aircraft in Ukraine in 2022
Thank you, DJ!
Just when we want to see the engine the presenter is standing in front of it so we can't see!
Did this pass? Is there an link for the final version?
Just make the radial a random seater. No need for that 100hp.
Nice looking plane! Random question.. Can a 6'4'" pilot fit into the cockpit?
With 500wh per kilo batteries now available would a electric version not be feasible now?
Motorroller to start it and let the roller empower the nod propeller blade free a@t air space
Beautiful plane! The finish is exquisite! And amazing if it’s part 103 compliant! It looks much better with the engine placed in front of the plane as apposed to the odd upper tube installation! Wish this were available in the US! A real airplane for 103 would be great!
The best ultralight. Long live.
I think it stalls at 35 when there is no fuel payloads and pilots
What's the stall speed clean? Is it 55 knots or lower? Just asking because of the proposed 54 knot clean stall speed being considered for the new mosaic
The stall speed is 45 knots clean and 35 knots with flaps and gear down. The details are in the video if you watch all of it.
Aventura Aero is a Ponzi scheme. The maker of this video is not at fault and probably made the video when it was owned by the previous owner. Alex took advantage of people like me who have lost many thousands of dollars. He even took advantage of his top salesman. DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE. A lawsuit is now in progress .
Sadly they are no longer there, and production of the Bushcat is “paused”.
Aventuras are crap! I owned an Aventura and had to do several upgrades to get the airframe safe and not "floppy" like an ultralight Quicksilver or Aerolite. Three years later, I finally had her flying and it was a blast but most folks instantly noticed mine was more Searey than "Crashentura". I sold my super upgraded Aventura and the new owner kept my description name SeaSkate as a nod to Searey. Alex is also the worst person Iv'e even tried to work with. Rude, ugly and misleading. Getting parts was impossible and every time, and if I could get them, 100% they would send me the wrong parts. AWEFUL! Now, I an a dedicated Searey pilot which is a TREMENDOUS leap of a better aircraft that "Crashenturas" Beware, crap company!
Hello Dan I have been following you for a while with your interesting videos. I live in saint petersburg florida and I am trying to find an ultralite instructor in my area. Do you know of any one doing it.
Speaking of composites, to me it seems like the obvious way to high performance, easy manufacturing and low maintenance. Carbon fiber easily pays for itself. Do Cirrus SRs ever need repair of the composites? It seems to me that you have to be in a significant crash before it would need repair and then you might consider scrapping it anyway. Whereas sheet and rivet alu planes find ways to fall apart and require careful watch which in annual parlance is bocu dollars. And if there is a tiny crack somewhere you might as well throw the plane away as rebuild rescue has shown us on the 'free' airplane. CF does not corrode or fatigue. Even in the extreme temperatures of aviation from desert heat to polar cold CF doesn't change size. It does not have a cycle life. And with compound curves just a shell is completely rigid, no frames, no stringers nor even core material is needed. If you make an Airbus A320 fuselage as a 2mm carbon fiber shell it can hold 10 bar pressure and it weighs less than 1.6ton. With wings and floor it might be 4 ton. Lighter weight needs smaller engines, could be placed at the back like a private jet and make the landing gear shorter. CF is pretty obvious for a pressurized 4 seater as well. So few parts if done well. You cannot make carbon fiber thin enough to where it can't hold sea level pressure in space. There would be maybe 5000$ worth of CF in a Cirrus SR size plane. Weighing 120kg for the structure, able to pull 10g. The difference between what is done in GA and what is possible is staggering.
The cheapest Cirrus is $635,000 new. Don't think you could make a cirrus fuselage and wings for 5k of prepreg carbon which will probably cost 20-30 dollars per sq ft. I have a friend worked at an aerospace outfit that did lots of carbon work, it cost a million dollars to make a carbon nose cone for a 747. Then there's molds which have a limited life span and large autoclaves used to cure the prepreg.
@@craigsanders6925 rather than blind faith in perceived authority you can look up a few things, do a bit of napkin math, compare to other constructions for how much is needed. First off, I believe the Cirrus is fiberglass, not even carbon despite the outrageous price. And second, carbon fiber cloth isn't much more expensive than garment cloth. Indeed pretentious couch fabric is far more expensive. I use easycomposites in Europe, an example price is brand name 450g twill for about 30$/m2 and that's low volume price. Might be 20% cheaper in bulk. Let's say 3 layers of that for 1.5mm thickness, plenty strong in compound curves, around 45m2 surface on a Cirrus SR22, that's 4050$. Plus resin. Incidentally that would weigh a little under 100kg for the entire structure. An SR22 weighs over 1000kg of which the engine is about 200. With a little engineering insight the simple truth is that an SR22 is an unimpressive plane with a very grotesque price tag and fools keep buying them.
@@DanFrederiksen Do you really think they're going to do a wet layup with a vacuum bag process? They use prepreg fiberglass cured in an autoclave. According to info I could find online some parts of the fuselage have up to 30 layers. I'm guessing their engineers know a bit more about the stresses and construction needed. Carbon or fiberglass can be damaged from stress, poor layup and delamination can be an issue as well. A new 172 is 400K, so that price isn't so bad for the top of the line avionics and a cruise speed of 200 knots. That Continental 550 is over 400 lbs, are you even a pilot?
@@craigsanders6925 do you really think that prepreg is decisively more expensive? do you understand that some companies do the prepreg themselves? that it's the fiber that matters. Besides Cirrus SR are fiberglass constructions which are very rarely done as prepreg so they are likely wet layup. And even autoclaves and prepreg use vacuum bags. And wikipedia literally says 200kg for IO-550. Some versions are lighter, some are heavier. Hard to argue I was wrong. Being a pilot doesn't automatically give you world class engineering insight like I have. And I have owned part of an LSA, not that it matters. Try to pause and realize you are arguing from blind faith in perceived authority. That you are status quo monkeying. Trying to silence intelligent insight that could be extremely beneficial to GA
@@DanFrederiksen Well you should tell Cirrus their info is wrong since it says they use prepreg. And yes it is more expensive than a wet layup. You might not be the only person that has done composite work. :)
Nice glasses
Get white frames next time
Looks like an older fellow took the advice of a younger one, unfortunately....
Beautifull machine
Thanks guys Good information 💯
@20:40 ; that is what I thought. Make it experimental, not ideal but will keep it flying. You might be able to get a waiver to instruct but not guaranteed, that's another can of worms.
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Side sticks ruin it for me
I owned an Aero Adventure Aventura and it WAS CRAP! Alex, who owns Aero Adventure is (in my opinion) the worst possible person in industry. My feeling for this sub-standard person aside, getting parts was nearly impossible and if I did get a shipment, it was almost always the wrong part! Just crap company and not a well-built aircraft. The design is great (by same designer of Searey) but the quality is like as a Quicksilver ultralight or worse. Wobbly, thin & cheap, poorly adapted for quick build times in sacrifice for quality. Truly, Kerry at Progressive makes the finest sea plane on earth and why would you pay for this piece of crap supported by the (in my opinion) the biggest dirtbag in aviation? BUYER BEWARE! I now part own a Searey and I could not be happier. The difference between aircraft is incredible.
Well Searey is out of business and Aventura isn’t. Plus your fake profile doesn’t give any credibility. Why don’t you go cry somewhere else.
Why don’t you post your name so we can know whose real opinion this is?
The Airwolf in the opening shot is the one I trained on, with Roy Beisswenger.
Make it in US
I am hoping for mosaic new rules bring more competition to the civilian aviation industry . *Acquisition cost *hour flying rate etc 😊
It is very sad to see this vedio. Respect mr. Boby. Love to see the pokra city, my loving place in paragliding. Greeting from sri Lanka ❤️❤️❤️.
I have one but it's only a 1.2 meter RC called an arrow scout
Dave's honestly fantastic guys are a great example of the biggest problem with modern general aviation. The people who started aviation for not upper class. The original military pilots were not officers. General aviation started with the middle class. Over the last century it has become progressively harder for the middle class to afford to fly their own plane. Right now you need to be upper middle class at the minimum to home and fly your own plane. Here as in aircraft forums people are talking about not having to pass a DOT physical as the big reason. That is a tiny sub set of people If you make the license affordable and achievable by the average person.. you will radically increase the market size for small aircraft. Do that and dramatically decrease the price. Do that can you increase the market even more The cheapest car on the market is far more complex than the average general aviation plane. It has more and better safety features. Get get cost a third as much or less
how much for this duck ?
This is a copy of the KhAI-34 aircraft
Can’t wait! I’ll be wanting one!
Awesome Paint job
Is it fun to fly?looks like it would be so there you go.
Please let us have duck technical specifications Thanks I remain; Jacob
some pictures and runn8ng it would be nice
the more things change the more they stay the same. it's a flightstar with floats. I am designing the same plane using affordaplane stye fuselage and wing construction.
I can imagine Phil Robertson leaning out with his 12 Gage. That propeller blast looks intimidating. Does it have a windscreen for the fliers?
I like the forward mounted engine!
I could've sworn I saw a chick in a bikini in the thumbnail.
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Icon A5 started out affordable.
Rather than tailwinds maybe wish good aerodynamics for everyone :)
I never knew I'd find a technique to see if people watch to the end. 👍🏼😎
@@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation I was quoted 83700€ for a new FM250 Vampire II factory assembled, good looking fast LSA, 912, analog. I've visited your site a couple of times over the years but never found insight into what are actually good deals. Shouldn't you have a chart with planes like the Vampire? like price vs speed that shames a VL3 and highlights a Vampire. If a Vampire is so much better a deal than the runaway 3-400k LSA prices, shouldn't everyone coming to your site know that as the first thing. Front and center. Not to mention all the poor fools building a kit at much greater cost if a Vampire is cheaper and better. And I only by chance know about the Vampire, the chart would show the landscape of prices.
@@DanFrederiksen your comments are appreciated, however, keeping up with the prices of hundreds of airplanes, each with multiple options, is impossible. Plus the prices change often so maintaining such a list becomes a full-time job.
@@DanJohnsonAffordableAviation I understand but it wouldn't have to be comprehensive to have effect. If just a couple stand out as really good value and that information is promoted that should hurt JMB and Bristell's ability to get away with 300k$ robbery pricing. A lot of plane makers don't seem to understand promotion so the flashy robbers get away with it.
It looks similar in configuration to the Catalina NG amphibian by FlySynthesis in Italy. This looks like a cheaper and less refined aircraft, though.
This is only a proof-of-concept aircraft. Let's see what the factory can put together.
Well, one can draw a picture of anything.
You obviously didn’t watch the video .🙄
What have you drawn pictures of ?
Tailwinds, except on takeoff.
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Any chance we see an electric version?
Cool!
I am hoping an instrument rating will be allowed, provided the pilot has had the full training & the aircraft is properly equipped.
Is it all aluminum skin or some type or oratec type wrap?