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At least he is sticking with his original plan. 1 buy a used engine out of a junk yard with an unknown history 2. bolt it on the plane along with all the accessories from the first engine. 3. listen for strange sounds 4. go fly! As the most hated airplane builder would say "Yup I'm good with...

The most hated airplane builder is back at it!

I know someone who has seen his ops limits and he said they were unusual and were more similar to amateur built category.

There are a number of things that distinguish the Raptor from other canards. Always overheats! Has a service ceiling of only 5000 feet. Cannot carry even just the pilot with full fuel tanks and on and on. If he ever does want to test the airframe he will need to bolt on an aircraft engine to...

I guessed it! I also predict the second engine won’t make it 10 hours and he will end up putting an aircraft engine on the plane.

Good point! You are probably correct he is a content creator now. The only problem with this is who is going to be able to upload the video of his final flight. That will likely be the highest viewed video.

The only people he has to satisfy are his customers, if he has any at this point I would be surprised.

My prediction is the raptor will not fly for at least 6 months. He will put in the new seal, start up the engine and discover his bearings are shot. Then the real issue begins. Where the hell is he going to get another engine? The engine is out of production. My bet is the engine will...

Here is video of the most hated aircraft builder landing with no power and getting towed back to the hangar with a golf cart. It does indeed seem to indicate he had a complete engine failure. Glad he is unhurt!

I am happy the most hated airplane builder is not injured. Hopefully the engine is toast and the most hated airplane builder stops the insanity and quietly goes away. There is nothing wrong with being a software engineer! I wish him all the best and hopes he stays far far away from aviation.

He was a software engineer that got pretty good at solidworks. At some point he was also a CFI.

Don't forget the most hated aircraft builder also had some fun with cutters, sheet metal and tape! Sadly he left us with a cliff hangar ending and won't let us know if the cooling is fixed. Place your bets here!

A deep stall has only been recoverable once and that was in a long ez piloted by Mike Melvill who admits he was lucky to be alive. He was testing the aft CG of the long ez. The most hated man in aviation has no idea where the aft limits of his CG are let alone the stall behavior!

The most hated man in aviation is back at it again, with more garbage of how he doesn't need to do stall testing. What a moron!

Today's video is a perfect example of why peter is one of the most hated figures in general aviation. He complains that people trying to help him are "mansplaining". I was rooting for this guy but I'm done now.

My favorite part is when he discovers his stall characteristics are not benign after his belts snap and he looses all power outside of gliding distance to the airport. Oh wait.... that happens in an upcoming video

My favorite part was when he decided on a whim to just throw in full rudder deflection at 200 feet agl!

The video is up now. Looks totally unstable!

Flt. 4 just went live on flight aware. Another pattern. .1

According to flight aware he has flown another .1