We've a crucial meet this morning, which I'm not happy about as it's a Sunday and reserved for coffee and croissants. Sales are telling me that Airbus insist this thing still go through a regular doorway, and recommend I reduce the rig to match the width of the skis. I approve it, although the Head of Safety and Compliance storms out and channeling my inner Elon I shout 'Go now go, walk out the door! Turn around now, you're not welcome any more!' but he already has.
The atmosphere electric, we turn to next item on the agenda and sales again insist it still be able to stand upright for storage, motors or not. Engineers are concerned that in this event there might not be clearance for 22" rear lift-props, although it turns out back in the workshop that as they are mounted 50mm above the booms, clearance is still satisfied if we shorten the booms to accommodate cruise-motors.
Accordingly I gave the green light and amidst the whoops and cheers ~ which I insist on under threat of redundancy, although that happens to whoever stops clapping first ~ we crack open Krispy Kremes and celebrate. At the water-cooler engineering suggest motors are protected by rubber feet in storage, and a push-on type is already available on our merch pages.
The price, in accordance with aviation spare-part practise, just $500 the pair.
