Powertrain Failure Results In Significant Damage To Prototype Airframe, Pilot Safe
One of the SportPlane world's most controversial kit development programs may be near an end. Following years of setbacks, delays and no end of questionable development decision, followed by a flight test program that reportedly got ast the minimum 40 hours, the Raptor prototype has been reported down in a corn field after a drive system failure resulted in an unplanned landing (one of three that we know of) tearing off the gear and apparently damaging other parts of the airframe. As those that have done so can tell you, cornfield landings are not without serious consequence and the damage may keep this airframe from flying again.
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