Vantage Searches For Pounds, Dollars Vantage engineers set to work, trimming ounces here and ounces there, and managed to cut 390 pounds. The other 400 pounds was weight the program was forced to live with. To deal with the increase, engineers redesigned the jet's wing to increase the plane's gross weight. The tail was also extended 20 inches to help overcome a problem with ice collecting in the inlet. It was painful what happened last year.
Money's a big part of it.
If you think it's lift and thrust and drag that makes an airplane fly, you're wrong. I don't know anything we're doing that will keep us from being certified. I need investors to send money. VisionAire has big plans that include more than just the Vantage jet. A mock-up of that bird could be ready by Oshkosh 2001.