The Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie
Have about $700,000 lying around and don’t know what to do with it? How about purchasing a brand new amazingly beautiful, Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie personal jet with the performance and efficiency to back it up! I mean seriously why wait in traffic when you can fly something that looks like it was featured in a sci-fi movie?
The single-engine piston plane can reach 260 knots (around 300 mph), and stay in the sky for up to 1,050 nautical miles (1,200 miles). Compared to other personal aircrafts, it’s about 20 mph quicker, and slightly more efficient.
Private aircraft manufacturer Cobalt launched the Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie on November 12. For now it is the fastest private aircraft in its class with a single-piston engines. The single-engine piston plane can reach 260 knots (around 300 mph), and stay in the sky for up to 1,050 nautical miles (1,200 miles). Compared to other personal aircrafts, it’s about 20 mph quicker, and slightly more efficient.
“Produced in two formats, the CO50 is a fully-certified version capable of being flown unrestricted and with an estimated delivery time of mid-2017, whilst the Valkyrie-X is a factory-built experimental-certified aircraft with an estimated production time of 6 months from the date of order.”
Options are available to sign up for both the experimental and certified models of the airplane. The cost for the experimental version “Valkyrie X” is $595,000 and the company says that delivery can be expected in about six months. Deposits for the certified version, with an introductory price of $699,000, are accepted at $15,000 a piece. Loury says to date five prototypes have been built and flight testing is already well underway. So far no details or info regarding the progress of the flight testing were disclosed other than to say that famed test pilots Mike Melvill and Mark Stucky have been happy with the performance.
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