As we rush toward the Christmas holiday period and get excited about a new season of flying (after a few more weeks of snow and ice), we have some news to report. Fortunately, you can stay where it’s warm and just watch — thanks to new videos from DeLand. While I missed my YouTube partner Videoman Dave at the show, I managed to fly solo and shoot video interviews and more on my own. Thank goodness, Dave remains at his video editing equipment and I am pleased to post a couple fresh videos below. A mere three weeks since Deland Showcase 2019 ended the airshow season for the year, fresh videos are flowing to provide information and entertainment. DeLand Race Around We started these quick-tour videos a few years ago and to a certain segment of visitors and viewers, these are hits as they show most of the airplane exhibitors plus give a sense of the event.
DeLand Finale; Tecnam Success; and… End of Kitty Hawk’s Flyer (Battery Problems, Fires)
DeLand Race Around
We started these quick-tour videos a few years ago and to a certain segment of visitors and viewers, these are hits as they show most of the airplane exhibitors plus give a sense of the event. In this video, I was a one-man band, driving a golf cart, videoing the scenes, and narrating into a microphone. Good thing I wasn't on the highway where I might have been criticized for multi-tasking. If I make it look easy, most of the credit goes to Videoman Dave for expertly editing the conglomeration of video clips and filling in images when aircraft vacated their exhibits to give demonstration flights. I hope you'll enjoy. https://youtu.be/U89yNEHTAzMTecnam Juggernaut
From the wonderfully simple P-92 — Tecnam's biggest seller that was exquisitely updated last year — to a twin-Rotax-engine model used even by other LSA producers who offer training to multi-engine students, to an 11-seat commuter airliner now in operation in the USA (by Cape Air), the world's leading light aircraft producer seems to have an aircraft for every interest group. They've also done masterfully well at penetrating the dense fog of national regulations to deliver aircraft in 65 nations. Oh, they are also the oldest continuously operating company serving light aviation, having celebrated their 71st birthday not long ago. In the following video, enjoy hearing "the face of Tecnam in the United States," Shannon Yeager, tell us about the lovely and luxurious Astore Light-Sport Aircraft. https://youtu.be/ucI0nwCtiGYFlyer Bites the Dust
Finally, an aircraft I tried hard to go fly for a review (I failed, despite a strong inside connection) …is going away forever. I refer to the Kitty Hawk Flyer. This single seat aircraft, nicely upgraded from its first awkward-looking configuration, had its electric-charger plug pulled when the company discontinued the one-place multicopter, first reported here.Flyer upgraded version — photo from CNBC.com
Original Flyer — photo from sfgate.com
Cora EVTOL from Kitty Hawk, now Wisk Aero