The Cobalt 50 at AirVenture 2010

The Cobalt 50 is a pusher-prop design that the company hopes will carry five people at 220 knots. AVweb's Jeff Van West spoke with Cobalt founder and CEO David Loury to find out more.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• aircraft
• canard
• flying
• airplane
• Co50
• Cobalt 50
• David Loury
• Cobalt Aircraft

[TheYozStudios]

@KittyPrancer then i suppose u fly with either a copilot who controls throttle, fly from the right side of the a/c or have a voice automated throttle lever because during take, landing and mostly during the flight, u will have one hand on the yoke/stick and the other on the throttle... it seems to me that u hav nvr flown before and are an imposter...

[KittyPrancer]

i hate flying left handed! why not put the stick in the center?

[CLEANACOUSTIC]

theres no fuckimg way this plane is worth 700k. there are some awesome builders letting go of planes theyve spent 5k hours building. get a certified kit. total waste!

[tinolino58]

Speed with a canard? Canards are slow, need long runways, have high rotations speed and crazy approach speeds

[quartzruby]

did he say at high angles of attack??

[DrPilotRedC]

@g4downin I used to hate side sticks, then I took flight training and realized you fly with left had only anyway.

[g4downin]

@eatmorenachos

Sidesticks save lives! Yokes have been known to impale the pilots in accidents!

[lebowski1664]

Faster, quieter and cheaper than a Bonanza G36 !

[alduncine]

I will consider buying one when ready. Reminds me a bit of the Javelin.

[totallyairplanecrazy]

This will match the hype of the icon ........