Published On Feb 19, 2021
Jet fighter in the garage? Yes! This is a real fighter of time and money. In 9 months, in an ordinary garage, we built a jet plane - a glider, comparable in cost to an average SUV. Flying a glider with jet turbines is the most exciting part of my young test pilot career.
The video covers all the stages of building our jet glider. From the moment the idea was born to flight tests. Now the glider is in series production.
0:00 Disadvantages and excesses of certification
8:22 Birth of an idea
10:11 What are the turbines
14:41 Design and manufacture of the airframe
27:37 First start-up of turbines
31:38 Flight tests
37:37 Flights in June 2019
43:00 Report from the tests in November 2018
47:30 Group flights of serial gliders in October 2019