Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder…

Peter loves to double down.

I have to give it to the guy, he has endless confidence and optimism.

Oh Good...
We now have season 2 just getting released

I think that the last episode of season one was kinda predictable.

But season 2 should be interesting... Looks like the same actors have been hired.

It's like watching a wreck on the side of the road... You can't help it... you have to watch.

OMG.... If you thought he'd bitten off more than he could chew with Raptor, just wait for Raptor NG: Twin ducted fan electric motors with batteries and a generator (hybrid). PLUS a janky-looking boxed wing design.

Hard to say whether this is just lunatic ravings or if he has some backing that will take a run at this. But I feel confident in saying that there is no way in hell it's going to work. Makes the original Raptor look like a reasonable design and specs.

Watch the video, it's well worth the time in amusement value.

At least his new aircraft will have the benefit of a “proven airframe”. Just reconfigured a little to use a pair of electric ducted fans with a generator and a little back up battery. Simple stuff.

Where do I send my deposit?

Mike C.

At first I thought, OK so he's going to redo this and make a proper prototype, maybe he'll show us all. Then I saw the ducted fans and I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

You stick to anything long enough and you'll succeed, no matter how bad the original idea is. I hope in 10 years this ends up being a design someone can buy. In the meantime I'm going to get some serious entertainment value watching this guy trip himself into a working aircraft, if he has enough time and money.

Maybe he was taking a page out of the Airbus playbook between the eFan and eFan-x! Go big or go home.

I love that his lessons learned seem to be "If I build something that looks even cooler and more advanced, I might be able to keep this up a while longer."

He describes that last flight as being at 1000' or so AGL and not being able to climb because there was a temperature inversion, which caused the OAT to soar all the way up to 78ºF from 72ºF. Those are some impressively bad numbers.

This makes his decision to fly to Boise even more bizarre.

Please disregard my last post. This guy is a f$%&$* idiot . What a POS and crummy design. Like someone said early on, VaporWare to use a term from Peter's original profession as a software engineer. That drawing was worked up in a few minutes it looked like to me. Hybrid generator and back up battery, no pressurization,. Better than the Audi engine performance wise, what the f does that even mean, the Audi engine didn't do anything he exaggerated that it would. WTF Wouldn't he say look Im putting a Walter in this, and we are going to redesign some things that we knew didn't work on the original. This is all BS>

He thinks a small motor and battery pack is going to be lighter than the Audi setup.

Season 2 is going to be great. He needs to introduce the new cast. Where are polars?

Cant talk about the fan/motor as it is still secret? So secret not even he knows


So maybe I am a lousy searcher on the NTSB site. ATSB would have something on a report by now, usually the next day. I gather NTSB are not even filing a pilot report on this for some reason?

I get stressed reading this thread, I expected a report with a fatality. Glad that did not happen, only corn damage. The world is a safer place for now at least.

This would be a great reality TV show (this week, on Airplane Fiasco, Home Depot is out of the parts he needs, but Lowe’s has some in stock, or do they??). He actually believes he is capable of this, he fails constantly, and he appears credible to the layman. This is as entertaining as watching Patey, but for the opposite reasons.

Tiger King but with airplanes.

A documentary company could buy the footage afterwards and make something interesting many years from now. “As of this airing, Peter said he has a new idea for an airplane. He has not found any investors yet, but is taking deposits.” (Cut to Peter talking to a small, disinterested group describing his new idea).