This is brilliant news! Let's just hope that it's 10 confirmed orders and not 1 confirmed and nine options...
Government and military contract(s) next?
Beags said "At what levels do they think that thing would operate - and what would be the extent of its vertical meanderings? Would they be predictable?"
I don't know - but my experience suggests from 100ft to 5,000ft on a tourist cruise in a planned flight. Perhaps 100ft over sea, doing Dolphin watch or similar, and 5,000ft over land doing some scenery or even just transiting. The early Flight Tests demo'd how finely steerable they are and they could possibly be GPS stabilised too. Due to hull pressures I would expect forward speed is likely to be limited to approx 80kts.
I fully expect to be corrected if I'm well off with those expectations - so fill yer boots.
Last edited by Rigga; 18th Jun 2022 at 14:15.