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Hello, my name is David Algie, chief cook and bottle washer
of Algie Composite Aircraft. I am a 23 year Indy car fabrication and
design veteran. Some of my career highlights:
Head fabricator,
Team Green, 1993 to 1998
PPG Indy car series champions 1995
Indy 500 winners 1995, 2002, 2005, 2007.
Jacques Villeneuve, driver.
Andretti Green Racing,
IRL Series Champions 2004, 2005, 2007.
Tony
Kanaan, driver.
Dario Franchitti, driver.
Dan Wheldon,
driver.
Bryan Herta, driver.
Danica Patrick, driver.
ALMS series, Acura, Sebring 12 hour winner 2007.
Indy cars are a technologically
advanced four-wheeled inverted aircraft; they produce double their
weight in down force (lift in reverse) and generate 5g's of
cornering energy at speeds up to 240 mph. Constructing and
developing these cars for years, I always wanted to bring their
technology to the kit aircraft industry.
Drivers routinely
survive 75g crashes, and fuel fires are a rare occurrence. Their fit
and finish, strength and low weight certainly should be standard for
aircraft.
After inspecting a few of the best (and most
expensive) kits out there, I realized that "state of the art" in kit
planes equaled poor component fit and unfinished detail work, all
equating to years longer than necessary to construct. This also
meaning superior skill levels needed to even start and is the reason
most of these types of kit aren't constructed by the owner, but
"farmed out" to A&P shops.
This being a mold type (not mold
less involving Styrofoam, etc.) aircraft, it is really easy to
produce many more identical parts once you have the female molds
complete. Most companies who produce a kit have many paid employees
who, while working on prototypes, are not turning a single profit
dollar. The company then has to amortize every kit sold to offset
the initial loss. With Algie Composite Aircraft, there are very low
overheads to cover, and with only a couple of people working on the
project, the "Design to build" information crossover is immediate.
Once the initial aircraft are produced, the production batch will
have very little added cost of the original design and tooling
tacked on. Also, all of the bugs will be worked out before any
components are sold.
If you have any questions or inquiries or
would just like to see more of this unique aircraft or be involved
in any way, send me an E-mail. Thank you for taking the time to read
this and I will answer all replies.
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