Shark, Mosaic-Ready Light-Sport Aircraft - Nov 2024
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- As flying enthusiasts wait for FAA to release their long-awaited Mosaic regulation, various producers are preparing models to be ready for the new rules, expected in the second half of 2025. One striking design is ready now. Come on along as we look over the Shark and speak with North American importer, Chris Horsten. Afterwards, we'll take the tandem two-seat speedster aloft for a demo flight. ▫️ Get lots more info about affordable aviation at ByDanJohnson.com, now part of Firecrown Media.
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Love this airplane. As a side note. Sister Zara Rutherford and brother Mack Rutherford flew the Shark airplane around the world in 2021 and 2022 setting records for youngest solo woman and youngest solo person to circumnavigate the globe.
nice if you have an extra 300k laying around. which the average person does not. but hey still love your channel Dan.
Do you want to fly?
Airplanes are not for poor people
@@cliffh8486 Even cars aren’t really for poor people.
Great to see the Shark in the US, let's hope the Trump Tax on the EU doesn't take it even further from the realms of affordability. So how far away is it from clearing the MOSAIC LSA hurdle? Excellent video thank you.
Chris - where did you get your seat covers?
Bravo.Go Ahead.
Love the thumbnail title. 😀 🦈
It is among the faster light sports, 914 doing around 350km/h at 10k and it is then all the more striking that the wide cabin side by side Risen is even more efficient. You'd think the sleek tandem is a guaranteed win but aerodynamics is a very particular lady. And yes the prices have become ridiculous, for the Risen too but they don't have to be. Indeed the Risen is such a relatively simple formula that all the makers should make their own approximate copy. You don't need the massive motorized canopy, note that the pilots sit well behind the peak of the canopy so it's unnecessarily large. Pilots and wings could be shifted forward, front glass could be static and have SR22 style doors. As touched on in this video, if the plane is very light you don't really need flaps which significantly simplifies the construction. A clever single piece fuselage in a quality mold that requires no finishing can really reduce cost. A good fly by wire system could also greatly simplify the mechanics and has natural autopilot functionality. Combined with a parachute I believe it can be the way forward. It's an engineering responsibility but really advances things. Replacing Rotax would also be good. If Garmin could make a G4x that has "nav" built in we wont have to replace them. I know it's blasphemic to the GA conditioned but there is no reason a Risen equivalent should cost more than 50k. Certainly viable within 100k. And it's not hard to imagine a 2+2 seater variant.
50,000, huh? Lol!
@@mauriceevans6546 hot tubs retail for 2500$ with everything. Complex fiber glass form, cosmetic surface, plumbing, pumps, lights. And that includes store profits. So these guys can't make a winged canoe with a VW engine for less than 300k? do you have any idea what brand name carbon fiber cloth costs? or do you trust your sheep hunches on pricing... try doing some napkin math, get some insight. Your conclusions will be more informed. Like mine.
@@DanFrederiksen 3K plain weave, 50" x 300ft about $3500 :)
@@larryblanco8056 yeah that's roughly 30$/m2, not much different from cloth for a dress. You don't specify the weight of it which also matters but serves as an example. Easycomposites offer a 450g/m2 Mitsubishi twill for 23$/m2. If we say a plane like this Shark might need 150m2 that's 3450$. With resin that would weigh about 70kg.
You can get a Northwind 20' carbon fiber canoe with 4 seats, nice finish, 1000lbs load rating for 4k$, close to the length of the Shark. Carbon fiber canoes can't be an absurdly large market so they can't claim mass production. So does aviation absolutely have to land on 300k for a small plane. Or is that comfortable 4x overpricing.
7:15 you care about indication that the gear is completely down, not completely up... Seems like a miscalculation
Dan.... Corvette used fiberglass springs in the stingray.
I wonder how much slower a fixed-gear variant would cruise. Often, the extra maintenance & insurance costs are not worth the marginal gains in airspeed, not to mention the increased weight of retractable-gear.
The prices of these small aircraft is getting totally out of hand.
300k.....NEXT :)
So awesome....another $400,000 LSA. WTF.
$300000. That takes me out
U me and a lot of others😂❤
Spoiler Alert: If you can't afford a 2025 ZR1 Corvette at $196, 000 or a second HOME, You wont come close to affording this guy
Typical salesman... not any real experience.
I was thinking the same thing. I would NEVER go demo with someone that hasn’t done a stall in the plane…
At least he is honest.
The Shark loves to fly. I was pitched up in mine, 3 flaps and under 35knots; I want to say 30 if I recall correctly, before it stalled. My flight manual states a Vso of 27 knots (50 km/hour). The shark has a tendency to fall to the left - but very easy recovery.