Kickstarter Ends Thursday
The End Is Near We’re coming to the end of the Kickstarter campaign. Hard to believe that 30 days have gone by so quickly. Even harder to believe that we’re at 302 backers. In a final push, we bought the leaderboard on the AOPA Aviation eBrief for today, which has added some 13 new backers in […]
Web Store Coming Soon
We have about a week left on the Kickstarter campaign, which is rather amazing – time flies. In preparation for “what comes next” we’ve started building out a web store that will take over when the Kickstarter ends. We will be offering both models of the FlightBox quick-build kit, plus the FlightBox case for those […]
FAA Reauthorization – What It Means For GA
A few days ago Congress published a bill generally referred to as the “FAA reauthorization” – a 279 page document that allocates funding for the FAA for the next several years and also sets policy mandates for the FAA and the Department of Transportation. Formally know as the “Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of […]
FlightBox Production Prototype Is In
The production prototype case arrived last week while I was out of town for a conference. It was actually a bit frustrating knowing that it was sitting on my desk at home – I’ve been looking forward to seeing it ever since we finalized the design. When I got home late last Thursday but took […]
Funded In 30 Hours
We launched our Kickstarter on Tuesday night. The campaign is running for 30 days. The goal was $10,000. I was guessing it would take at least a week to get there. We hit the $10k mark about 30 hours in. As I write this – just over two full days into the campaign – we’re at […]
NTSB, Loss of Control, and The Slow Trudge of Regulation
This week the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its annual “Most Wanted” list – a catalog of ten transportation safety improvements that they want to prioritize for the next year. For the fourth year in a row, general aviation accidents – specifically, loss of control accidents – remained on the list. (Considering that all […]
And we’re live! Now on Kickstarter.
Yesterday afternoon I received the “you’re clear for takeoff” message from the community manager at Kickstarter! As of about 5PM on Tuesday the campaign was live. We had our first FightBox backer within 15 minutes. The campaign has been live for less than a day and we’ve already reached 20% of our $10,000 minimum goal. […]
Launching on Kickstarter… Soon
So yesterday I submitted the FlightBox campaign to Kickstarter, ending a couple of weeks of burning up all my evening and weekend time trying to put together a reasonably polished presentation that explains the basics of the product. The campaign is now in the “pending” state – which means that the Kickstarter team will be […]