Highlights - HX50 Monthly Update & AMA on October, 2024

[@THEKITPLUG]

This is a true masterclass on how to build a vertically integrated company from the ground up. The documentation and marketing around how you pulled this off is a feat in its own right.

[@sccolbert]

Your video editor is top tier. That was a fantastic quality video for a status update. I also marvel at how y'all have managed to fund this project given the global economic environment!

[@AC-jk8wq]

So much more interesting than the wave of electric vertical flight aircraft! Go Hill Helicopters! 😃

[@jonathanjenkins8630]

Very nice to see all the progress, despite the frustration of not having one flying yet!

[@DanFrederiksen]

Very precise dates

[@johnfisher7143]

Wow. That’s a lot of risk to be carrying without even a single prototype being flown. The funding model would be interesting to look at. Probably some nervous investors somewhere.

[@spdcrzy]

It's possible to go a lot further in the virtual world and in prototyping today than it was even just two decades ago. Modeling, CFD, FEA, 3D printing, and modern CNC milling can help you do a LOT of things far more quickly with far less risk than you would normally think. The problem isn't risk, it's simply cash flow. Lucid is facing the same issue right now.

[@rebekahsteeper]

It’s truly incredible.

[@furiousaviator]

🎉❤

[@kevingallen1678]

Unbelievable this is still going on!

[@yama-fanboy]

read the description

[@AC-jk8wq]

Welcome to the world of start-ups… If it was easy… Everybody would be doing it! 😃

[@bobmuller5002]

Silent flight with massage/heated seats. A.I. Integration? Can you guys design a helicopter than can turn into a glider in emergency situations for safer landing instead of crash and die upon impact?

[@loydnornes]

Where can I buy stocks? I love this project.

[@carlosdlguerra]

Really getting everyone to fly to your meetup on 9-11?

[@Ellaine-o6h]

To com medo de comprar esse helicóptero e ele ser ruim sem ser seguro. Pq é experimental.

[@Ray-um3if]

Why bother making comments like that! If you don't like it, do something else. Nobody is forcing you to be involved.

[@desertpoj]

Or you could get yourself an overpriced, inefficient and difficult to operate legacy helicopter based on a 40-50 year old design and using 60 year-old technology whose idea of an Air Safety Management System (ASMS) is a seatbelt. I have on several occasions since 1988 visited the accident hall at Farnborough and always noted the disproportionate number of crumpled lightweight helicopters. I’ve flown an R22 and an R44, although I’m really a fixed wing pilot, and I wasn’t impressed in the slightest. I would much prefer to take my family in a modern composite, glass cockpit machine with a modern engine and an ASMS than all of the lightweight offerings out there. Yes I wouldn’t like them to fly in the test machine, but give them 1000 hours and I know what I’d prefer. The Boeing 737 Max has a pedigree going back to 1964 and 12,000 have been built. The A350 was a clean sheet design that first flew 11 years ago and only 625 have been built. I rest my case. Here’s to Doctor Hill and his team and I wish them every success, even though my budget only stretches to a 2009 European composite fixed wing machine; which is just so much better than anything from a legacy US manufacturer!

[@AC-jk8wq]

Read up on experimental aircraft… Some of the highest performance aircraft remain in the experimental category for a technical reason… The word experimental is probably being mis-understood. 😃

[@spdcrzy]

Experimental doesn't mean unsafe. Most modern "experimental" craft are far safer than a lot of current production models whose safety features are older than me.