Driven5 wrote:
He may drive a slow car, but he certainly works fast!
Well the patterns aren't far from ready, it's not like I'm starting with a clean sheet of paper. Three months is a safe quote.
Driven5 wrote:
So not just three people with strong interest...But three people with strong interest who are both willing and able to essentially put their money where their proverbial mouth is right now.
Not necessarily right now, I'll start whenever there's the interest to support the venture. But if you want your body parts by Independence Day, right now would be good.
As far as the money-where-their-mouth-is part goes, most Locost builders are familiar with Kinetic's credit terms. I'm not going to ask for money for something that doesn't exist yet. I need three people to give me orders, not to give me money. I'd even accept "I'll want delivery next Spring" orders. But it is a big project, and I don't have the yarbles to make the molds on spec and hope for the best.
I've had a few products that I thought would take the world by storm. Like, who wouldn't want a Wright Flyer replica instead of an ordinary ultralight? All but five people, that's who. I'd calculated I'd break even at 50 aircraft and make money on the 51st. If I'd sold 30 of them the first year, that would have been enough to keep them available, but 5? No way.
Three Locost bodies is the risk/reward equivalent of 30 "Light Flyers" (cute name, eh?).