[jimmyswimmy]

As a pilot, I love the idea. But as soon as I saw the cockpit I knew the price would be out of my league. I'm still in the single digit gallons per hour world, and this bad boy is running at 50-60 gallons per hour. Nice engine. Would be great to be able to buy JetA.

I was amused that they elected to pay the weight penalty of a stove, until I saw they're carrying around an outboard motor. Love the idea, wish I were rich enough to really consider one of these for myself.

Also - thrusters in the floats? I haven't seen that before. I never did get a seaplane endorsement, which you'd need for one of these. That's a neat idea, even if it isn't theirs. I wonder how much they're needed, and if the added control on the water is worth the weight. I have to imagine they'd be great if they offer enough degrees of freedom (and are easy enough to understand how to use).

[imglorp]

It's just one notch below the Winnebago Heli Home :-)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34753/the-winnebago-heli-home-...

I didn't realize there were so many AN-2's for sale: looks like going rate is about $100k for a piston or $2m for a turbine.

https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...

edit, I guess you need that turbine to lug all the extra weight from the furnishings and floats around with enough Vx to get out of short mountain lakes with a little density altitude.

[frompdx]

The turbine version going for $2.4m is in fact the plane from the article OP shared. So that's what they are looking to get for their version.

https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...

[bigfatkitten]

The Heli Home is extravagant.

I'm a man of modest needs; I'd be happy enough with an MD500E, a Jetboil and a swag.

https://murchisonriverswags.com.au/products/stockmans-swag

[emchammer]

Holy Toledo. The Winnebago Heli Home is the most 1970s thing I have seen since the CRT thread. How much more energy can we consume in doing a typical recreational activity.