> Tom Smythe wrote:
        > >
        > > Read that as less expensive.
        > >
        > > I just got off the phone with an aircraft structural engineering firm
        > > and they're asking for $150,000! to do the design work on the plane
        > I've
        > > already done the configuration work on (that part they quoted $3,500
        > for
        > > if I hadn't done it yet).
        > >
        > > Anyone know of a way a non-engineer but, technically knowledgable guy
        > > can put together an airplane and survive in it?
        > >
        > > Thanks,
        > >
        > > tom
        >
        > Tom,
        >
        > You might want to give Bill Husa at Orion Technologies some
        > consideration.  Bill has been a big contributor of information on my
        > website and he is a very competent designer.  I contacted him about your
        > problem and he felt the number you were quoted seemed way out of line
        > assuming we are talking a fairly conventional type design.  He and his
        > crew can also fabricate the prototype if that is something the customer
        > is interested in.  He told me this may bring the overall cost of the
        > project down because the design and construction process proceed in a
        > more seamless fashion.  He gave me some more specifics but I don't want
        > to post our correspondence here on this list.  Email me for the details
        > at admin@homebuiltairplanes.com.  Here is the Orion Technologies
        > website: http://www.oriontechnologies.net/.
        >
        > Jake Crause
        > www.homebuiltairplanes.com

Ramón Fonseca wrote:

Is this the same people that were developing until last year a 300 mph twin airplane called Orion?

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