So I clicked "pre-order" expecting to see a sales contract for the position. Nope...just enter your credit card and click buy.. Really?

https://www.cobalt-aircraft.com/checkout/

I wish there were more pressurized experimentals. The lancairs don't appeal to me... well, the Evo appeals to me, just not to my pocketbook.

The fact that they needed to empty the seats to bolster their speed claims lost me on the Valkyrie. Shame, I really like the tail. For 700K, though... yeah even I'd get a Cirrus over that.

Well if the Raptor ever turns into anything other than vaporware, it should fit the bill.

Don't have a pilot's license?

No problem. We will fly your completed Raptor to your nearest airport and then provide an instructor that will take you through your private training and instrument if you require that also (required for flight above FL180). Given that you now have a shiny new Raptor you will just be paying for fuel and the instructor. For most people this will be about 50 hours or about $3500. After that you will take your test (about a $400 fee) and you will then be free to fly.

Please contact Cobalt at engineering@cobalt-aircraft.com for inquiries on performance tables.

The reasons for water cooling include the ability to much more tightly manage engine temperatures. This allows building an engine with tighter tolerances.

It also allows for much more efficient cooling designs. The cooling system on the Mustang uses the Meredith effect to recover engine heat as thrust supposedly adds 15 horsepower. This made the Mustang the first fighter that could follow the bombers all the way to Berlin, and that changed the game in the air war over Europe...

Another advantage of being able to control temperatures allows the use of anti-wear chemistry in the engine oil. The RR Merlin does not have adequate temperature control to allow the use of these chemistries, but the lowly Rotax 912/914 does and the Military runs the bottom end of those engines 7000 hours in drones.

Sadly the Continental Voyager engines were never fully developed into a viable engine. In theory the addition of modern engine oil chemistry to aircraft engines could double or triple TBO.....

With all that said, the single largest cause of on road engine failures in Class 8 trucks are cooling system failures.... And so when flying the P-51, anytime you are not thinking about the cooling system, you are not doing your job. If the cooling system fails you are about 120 seconds from being a 175 mph glider with a 15 to 1 ratio...

At 4 miles per minute that's 8 miles with power (if you catch it early) and then 2.5 to 3 miles per 1000 feet of altitude above the 3000 AGL high key. If you think about it, that is an area bigger than the President's TFR if you're cruising in the mid-teens. But flying X/C under a 1500 overcast, you're probably going to engage in some agricultural tillage...

The Mustang would be the perfect airplane if it had a P&W-2800...

So I clicked "pre-order" expecting to see a sales contract for the position. Nope...just enter your credit card and click buy.. Really?

https://www.cobalt-aircraft.com/checkout/

Guess these guys fleeced enough canadians and moved south to more fertile pastures. I wonder where the next move is after this.

I know actual prices always end up being higher than press release time but man, according to the website it's already gone up 10% just since the flying article today.

Well if the Raptor ever turns into anything other than vaporware, it should fit the bill.

Cray range

Balistic Chute

Room for 5

And it's pressurized.


Here's hopin...