If he has a team of professional engineers with vast expertise in these areas, show and tell as it would give more credibility
He rolls them out all the time. The composites guy is in most videos. He also regularly features avionics, power electronics, some of the CAD design guys. Mentions of the engine people who are specialists in particular fields such as blade or compressor design happens. It's apparent he listens to experts because take the engine: idea started as old school can combustor with 2-stage compressor, 1-stage power, blisk design. That is now an annular combustor (lower profile, more modern), bladed disk (better fatigue life), single stage compressor (couldn't get twin to work with more complex secondary air system sapping off too much air, so logical to switch to single, with associated size/weight/complexity reduction).
Compared to existing manufacturer's & products, this is ultra transparency. But I think it's needed when taking orders from a CAD design.
I expect he will try and make the tyres as well!!!
False. Also not making LCD screens, and **** that makes no sense.
however the stresses on a helicopter are completely different
Which is why the entire thing has gone through finite element analysis, blah blah, and is planned to pass all certification / crash requirements. Which he regularly discusses in detail.
Would they sell there services, products or whatever there business is for a third of the price they could command? I don't think so, otherwise they wouldn't be so wealthy
He's not selling for 1/3 the price. I'm #334 and got 29% off (let's call it 2/3). Latest offers are around 10% discount +/- ... it's sliding to no discount after 1000 orders.
Sounds entirely reasonable business idea to me. Pre-sell 1 year worth of orders at cost price (assuming 30% margins normally), 2nd year onwards profitable, at full scale. That's actually epic returns for such a huge undertaking. Use the ~10% deposits for development without diluting shareholdings with capital raising or loans, in order to retain 100% control & direction. Having a massive order book allows appropriate scaling straight to big 500/year factory with minimal overproduction risk. Use HX profit and cashflow, plus HC order book deposits, to fund certification of HC. Use experience of HX50 to de-risk HC50 certification in parallel.
I predict his equity is going to be billionaire status in 10 years (assume 500 orders, 200k GBP profit ea, is 100m GBP profit per year. 10x multiplier = billionaire). Pretty good from starting with a few million in equity and grants.
I'm getting bull**** correction fatigue. See:
Brandolini's Law:
"The amount of energy needed to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
And this comic haha
