Couldn't have said it better myself.

Get a room…

I'm just an excavator operator, I must advance to something else

@@Captndarty thanks for proving my point.

I could listen to him talk about all those things and seem like I know exactly what he is talking about, 15 mins after someone asks me what’s 75X3 and I’m an idiot again.

Joentexas /agree. This sort of statement would normally be hyperbole, but in Patey's case, it's genuinely true. If you watch the entire Draco video series, Mike's bonafide creative genius is demonstrated again and again. From the big picture to tiny details like the names of all those who helped or are friends put all over the plane, its meticulous and the finished product looks beyond professional. It's truly amazing that we get to watch something like this.

Except da Vinci wouldn't talk to you because you are you. Couldn't, because he spoke Italian and is as you said 500 years out of our time. If a lion could speak English we wouldn't understand them. Oh this is beyond hyperbole this is on the knees, sucking away, BS.

Here's to us, and those like us ........ damn few of us left. Cheers!

there are more like him, they just lack the funds.

@@SoloRenegade Then they’re really not like him. He obviously did what he had to do to live the life he lives. This guy is an insomniac workaholic.

@@Bendejo-lm8wo That's not exactly true. part of success in life is simply being in the right place at the right time. luck. Studies show this. Many people have done exactly the same as Mike Patey and others and never succeeded. and often times it was a matter of timing. they introduced a new idea too early or even to late, when another person hit it at just the right moment. Hard work counts, but there are tons of people that work just as hard, if not harder. there are people smarter too. Now, it doesn't take pure smarts to succeed, we know that. but timing can be everything. I'm not here to rain on Mike's success. from what I know he earned and deserves every bit of it. the issue I'm here to rain on is the false idea that such people are rare, in short supply, and the baseless accusation that they aren't hard working enough to achieve the same. There are people that have far cooler ideas, and know far more than he does about those ideas, are comparably as hard working, and they simply never got the right opportunities to achieve a level of success that enables them to self fund their visions. workaholics are not in short supply, and people with ideas are not in short supply either. the opportunities to pursue them are. And not everyone is a good business person either, and that prevents a great many of people from ever earning enough alone. They have amazing ideas and talent, but need business partners to help them where they are lacking. the Great Filter preventing great minds from achieving their potential is frustrating at times. I se far too many people who clearly have potential crushed by society doing everything in their power to destroy them.

@@SoloRenegadenot sure where you live, but the world I have seen definitely lacks workaholics, in particular ones that continue to be workaholics past the first couple set backs. I do agree that we don’t lack people with ideas, I would disagree however if someone claimed they were all good ideas… What was it, like 5 to 10 years ago or so when there was tons of adds for patent filling because everyone had the next invention that was the best thing ever? Lots of people with ideas, less with good ideas, much less with an ounce of perseverance. I don’t want to rag on the average Joe too hard, I feel it would be disrespectful to the spirit in which Mike puts out these videos. But I’d rather see more people pull up their selves, get educated, and get back to work than to have more excuses as to why they could’ve been but just weren’t.

Real boys are humble and lovely. Only the half guys bark and bite.

Sad that is not so much videos of Turbulence

@@MDUD777 things are changing though 😀

@@cj09beira and thats the good info because this plane is truly amazing 🔥

This ^

Why dont you watch Mike building Draco or even Scrappy. Plenty of hours of designing, building testing. Even Mikes house. Just watch the great videos.

He never mentions aero testing or much engineering analysis

Oh boy, if humanity as a whole would feel inspired ba Mike and Mark the world would be a much better one. Sadly they rat race about being the biggest idiot somehow.

That cockpit is sick. 1950s vibe meets glass screens and digital avionics.

His next plane is going to be a racer to beat turbulence. He showed off the engine for it in one of the Draco videos. Then Draco X we think

Sorry that you had to watch one of his videos