Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by khedoros1 on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:22PM
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> Plus, the only price I could find for a 1960s Cessna 172 is $12k.
Seems unusually low, compared to the offer prices listed here: http://www.aircraftdealer.com/aircraft_for_sale/Cessna_172/9...
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by Veratyr on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:49PM
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I was looking at this, though I admittedly know little about purchasing used aircraft: https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+...
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by khedoros1 on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:38PM
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Ditto, I just though it might be useful to look at a larger sample size (taking "a 1960's Cessna 172" as more of a general example than an exact requirement).
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by ams6110 on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:31PM
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Even if it's a real price, that's hardly the only cost to owning an airplane, if you actually fly it.
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by khedoros1 on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:27PM
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Similarly, the purchase price of a car isn't the only cost of owning it. Someone else later in the thread broke down small plane ownership costs (about $8000, without flying, about $10k if you actually want to fly some).
I was just replying to the price comparison with a car. Going up the thread, part of the premise was that they couldn't afford to buy a Cessna "Nevermind the maintenance, training and more".
Anyhow, the point's already been made (several times) that the purchase price isn't the only consideration.
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-off and landing jet
by AcerbicZero on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:25PM
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~30k-40k for a mid 60's 172 that will actually fly, after some maintenance.
> potentially for everyone if the economics of sharing these works out where regular folks could afford to hail these and the system could scale.
The idea is:
- You don't need pilot training
- The cost of the aircraft is shared among many people. You're not meant to buy one for yourself, you're meant to hail it like a taxi or Uber.
Plus, the only price I could find for a 1960s Cessna 172 is $12k. If you can't afford that, you can't buy a decent car either.