ORIGINAL: Willdo
ORIGINAL: perttime
I recall a site for full-size home-built aircraft (Rans?) mentioning that whatever all the engineers say, the primary thing that makes an aircraft fly is money
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The guy who made the above statement probably sat in his office, threw money at projects and let the engineers do all the hard work and worrying, and if it was successful he took all the glory - cos he was the leader of the team and he paid the money!
... you take it too seriously ...
Whatever model we manage to get in the air costs something, you did not get the old parts and scraps for free.
With full scale the cost is on a different scale too. I took that statement as a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of the realities that a full-size builder/buyer is facing. And it was probably in a section that dealt with financing options.