Maverick personal jets
Thomas J. Paladino Jr.
ASO.
Does anyone know anything about these planes? How much do they cost, who
actually owns one, and how safe are they? The website is not overly
impressive, and does not offer very much in the way of useful information. I
have never heard of these things before, just wondering if they are legit.
Thomas J. Paladino Jr.
New York City
kjw
used Maverick that was auctioned off. No mention, however, of the new
price.
Judging from their website, do they seem extremely arrogant to anyone
else?
Rosspilot
>Judging from their website, do they seem extremely arrogant to anyone
>else?
The print is so small I can't even read their friggin' website. Why do people
design sites using the smallest fonts?
Rosspilot
www.skyviewpictures.com
JerryK
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Larry Dighera
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>Why do people design sites using the smallest fonts?
It stems from (at least) two causes.
1. The web developer's display resolution is set to low
resolution (standard VGA mode). This causes font point size to appear
larger than when displayed on a high resolution display. A
professional web developer will proof read his work at different
resolutions before publishing it to insure that it is readable on most
systems.
2. The web developer is has no training in graphic design,
and is attempting to crowd in a lot of text on the page, and resorts
to reducing the font point size to make it fit. He can read it on his
low-rez display, so he's unaware of the difficulty it causes users
whose hardware supports higher resolution settings.
Such unreadablely small point size looks amateurish, and reveals the
organization's lack of professionalism. I'd take it as a warning
regarding the firm's possible general policy of overlooking
significant issues in its operation, and probably choose to go
elsewhere with my business.
Larry Dighera
<tpal...@nyc.rr.com> (Thomas J. Paladino Jr.) wrote in Message ID
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>How much do they cost
http://www.maverickjets.com/uk_interview.html
From the link above: $750,000.00.
It's certified under: FAR Sec. 21.191 - Experimental certificates
http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part21-191-FAR.shtml
JerryK
That strikes me as odd. I would think one would be more concerned about the
plane.
Look at www.gami.com. I guess you would not buy GAMIInjectors also.
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Montblack
set at 800x600. I get annoyed when I have to scroll sideways. I'll scroll
down, but sideways bugs me no end. Small fonts are creeping up in magazines
too. Popular Science is on my "Hit List" because of their incredible
shrinking fonts. I want to enjoy reading, not be reminded, at every page
(magazine or web), that I am now 42 and can't see straight anymore. :-)
I like the old Phil Spector "phil"osophy as a record producer. In his office
he would listen to the songs he was arranging on a crummy car speaker,
turned way up, because that's how the kids were going to be hearing his
music, on car stereos, (I mean car radios), or small, cheap, transistor
radios. This is why he developed his trademark 'wall of sound' style.
Today's hi-tech web page designers could learn a thing or two from old Phil.
As far as the Maverick Jet web page not being impressive, I didn't like the
Cirrus page very much either. It didn't feel informative or (don't
laugh)...welcoming. I'll have to revisit them to see if they've improved it.
Speaking of Cirrus, I live in the Twin Cities and I have a brother living up
in at the tip of Lake Superior in Duluth, MN - 150 miles straight up the
freeway. Next time I go up there, I'll contact Cirrus to see if they'll let
me take a peek at their assembly plant. I do enjoy a good assembly plant
tour.
Montblack
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Montblack
would get in line, and while waiting, try to scrounge up $825,000 1999
dollars.
I think Eclipse is doing for small jets what Texas Instruments did for
calculators in the mid 70's. My brother bought a calculator for school in
the early 70's - $150.00. Four years later, I got one free for opening up a
checking account. Four years is about the Eclipse waiting period.....
Montblack
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Ron McKinnon
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> From what I've read about Mavericks, I would hold out for an Eclipse. Ok,
I
> would get in line, and while waiting, try to scrounge up $825,000 1999
> dollars.
>
> I think Eclipse is doing for small jets what Texas Instruments did for
> calculators in the mid 70's. My brother bought a calculator for school in
> the early 70's - $150.00. Four years later, I got one free for opening up
a
> checking account. Four years is about the Eclipse waiting period.....
>
Its a bit more money, but c'mon guys, be honest, what you
really want is a Javelin ... http://www.avtechgroup.com
Larry Dighera
<ron.mc...@shaw.ca> (Ron McKinnon) wrote in Message ID
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At least the Javelin is FAR part 23 certified, and cruises at nearly
mach 1.
Montblack
million (2002 dollars....+ options!!) that Cessna wants for their new
Mustang. It's ONLY 340 knots but it does seat 4 in club seating plus pilot
and copilot. 41,000 ft certification.
....as long as I'm standing in line.
Montblack
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Ben Jackson
Rosspilot <ross...@aol.comspamstop> wrote:
>
>The print is so small I can't even read their friggin' website. Why do people
>design sites using the smallest fonts?
Because early versions of IE defaulted to large fonts, and web developers
"solved" the problem by (ab)using the new FONT tag. Anyone using only IE3
or IE4 to check their work made pages which are unreadable on anything
else.
--
Ben Jackson
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http://www.ben.com/
Kyler Laird
>My other personal favorite is designers forgetting that most monitors are
>set at 800x600.
And my personal favorite is "Windows" users who have
exactly one window that fills the entire display.
--kyler
Kyler Laird
>Such unreadablely small point size looks amateurish, and reveals the
>organization's lack of professionalism. I'd take it as a warning
>regarding the firm's possible general policy of overlooking
>significant issues in its operation, and probably choose to go
>elsewhere with my business.
I dare you to say that in rec.aviation.homebuilt. (I've
made similar observations about bad grammar/spelling.)
--kyler
Dean Cleaver
good eyesight (despite being a programmer and working on computers for the
past 20 years). I have my monitor at 1280x1024, and that "small font" seemed
ok to me. However most of my family cannot read my monitor even with their
glasses on - I have to change the res for them.
Admittedly, the monitor is a 17" LCD, and I couldn't reccomend LCD monitors
highly enough - I think it has improved my eyesight in the past 2 years.
Dino
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J. Hansen
> would get in line, and while waiting, try to scrounge up $825,000 1999
> dollars.
>
> I think Eclipse is doing for small jets what Texas Instruments did for
> calculators in the mid 70's. My brother bought a calculator for school in
> the early 70's - $150.00. Four years later, I got one free for opening up a
> checking account. Four years is about the Eclipse waiting period.....
So if I wait four years, can I get a free Eclipse for opening
a checking account?
Larry Dighera
<dean...@nettech.co.nz> (Dean Cleaver) wrote in Message ID
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> I couldn't reccomend LCD monitors highly enough
I use a 17" Viewsonic display set to 1280 X 1024 also. It has a
0.25mm pixel size. Do you think your LCD is capable of 1/4-mm fine
pixel size? What brand and model number LCD display is yours? Until
your comment, I have always found LCD displays lacking in sharpness
capability compared to CRTs.
Billy Harvey
>> I couldn't reccomend LCD monitors highly enough
Larry Dighera:
>I use a 17" Viewsonic display set to 1280 X 1024 also. It has a
>0.25mm pixel size. Do you think your LCD is capable of 1/4-mm fine
>pixel size? What brand and model number LCD display is yours? Until
>your comment, I have always found LCD displays lacking in sharpness
>capability compared to CRTs.
I've used IBM Thinkpads for some time. I've never found a better
display. Their standalone LCDs are of the same quality. You can see
various specs including pixel pitch at:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/accessories/monitors/t_allmodels.html
From a personal comfort perspective, the difference in eyestrain is
significantly and noticeably less using LCDs the last few years. High
quality LCDs are worth every cent.
Billy
Thomas J. Paladino Jr.
>
> I use a 17" Viewsonic display set to 1280 X 1024 also. It has a
> 0.25mm pixel size. Do you think your LCD is capable of 1/4-mm fine
> pixel size? What brand and model number LCD display is yours? Until
> your comment, I have always found LCD displays lacking in sharpness
> capability compared to CRTs.
I just saw the Apple 23" HD Flat Screen display for the new PowerMac G4, and
it is, bar none, the best computer display I have ever seen in my life.
Absolutely amazing. The flat panel has come a long way.
Montblack
Next your going to tell me my 15 year old 3.5 inch floppies (with 1.44mb
capacity) are
outdated.
http://www.jcn1.com/wiley/html/pchistory.html
Montblack
Eliminate n1u2m3b4e5r6s
David Dyer-Bennet
In general, LCDs have much *sharper* pixels, but somewhat lower
resolution than the top end monitors. There's at least one company
making LCD displays that have 206 ppi resolution, though, *much*
higher than any ordinary monitor. Priced accordingly, though :-(.
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Dean Cleaver
Yes it is - the resolution of this monitor is 1280x1024 - thats the exact
number of pixels on it, and thus the pixel size is whatever that works out
to...
BTW - one is a Philips 170B, one is an HP L1720 and the other is an IBM
Thinkpad R32...
Dino
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