Kiwi303
Not a fruit
Most of the cost of aircraft engines, turboprop, turbine, or piston, is simply certification cost and FAA traceability of parts.
You can literally if the paperwork has been filled out correctly at all stages, trace every individual bolt or washer back through purchase number, stock number, supplier number, production number, raw materials number, furnace melt number, raw ore delivery number... with QA at each step...
A jet ski motor replacement for a jetski with a Rotax engine is four figures... that SAME engine for use in microlight and ultralight aircraft is 5 figures.
A kit plane where you buy the quick build option and go spend 2 weeks pottering around pulling rivets while the factory hands line up and hold the pieces for you so you can claim it is home-built under the FAA's 51% rule then everything else is done by the factory can be $80,000 for a new plane. A similar Certificated aircraft entirely done by the factory is closer to 120,000... yet is identical.
That's certification cost of the plane, even the quick build E-AB kit needs certificated parts, simple materials and labour cost without certification, that plane would cost around $40,000.
$30,000 mass production gas turbine? Hell yeah, do 10,000 a year and tell the FAA to go pound sand, quite affordable.
Any truck with a dead turbine is just going to roll to a stop on the side of the road and call a tow, it's not going to be 30,000 feet up and finding itself unable to stay there...
You can literally if the paperwork has been filled out correctly at all stages, trace every individual bolt or washer back through purchase number, stock number, supplier number, production number, raw materials number, furnace melt number, raw ore delivery number... with QA at each step...
A jet ski motor replacement for a jetski with a Rotax engine is four figures... that SAME engine for use in microlight and ultralight aircraft is 5 figures.
A kit plane where you buy the quick build option and go spend 2 weeks pottering around pulling rivets while the factory hands line up and hold the pieces for you so you can claim it is home-built under the FAA's 51% rule then everything else is done by the factory can be $80,000 for a new plane. A similar Certificated aircraft entirely done by the factory is closer to 120,000... yet is identical.
That's certification cost of the plane, even the quick build E-AB kit needs certificated parts, simple materials and labour cost without certification, that plane would cost around $40,000.
$30,000 mass production gas turbine? Hell yeah, do 10,000 a year and tell the FAA to go pound sand, quite affordable.
Any truck with a dead turbine is just going to roll to a stop on the side of the road and call a tow, it's not going to be 30,000 feet up and finding itself unable to stay there...