Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Apollo North American Fatal inflight breakup!

WE = Our trike school, me involved in it as well. And its Apollo North America (not American, btw).
Apollo Aircraft, Inc. is the manufacturer of trikes and airplanes that I am involved with that you are mixing it up with. Different company, has actual mechanics wrenching not just CFI's flying around. Apollo North America DBA TampaBay Aerosport is the place the planes are distributed from (our trikes are designed here as well and prototyped here) and final assembly and test flights are done here. The aircraft are not produced here.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Pitcher" <lightflyer@...> wrote:
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> Sorry to keep asking this Abid, but now you're saying that "We listed builder as Apollo North American"
> Who is "WE"?
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> Glad to hear that he DID get training, I wonder why he would do negative-G maneuvers if he knew better?
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> Sad to hear of ANYONE being hurt in our sport.
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> From: apollonorthamerica
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:26 PM
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Apollo North American Fatal inflight breakup!
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> The aircraft was assembled out of a kit by Apollo North America (not Apollo Aircraft, Inc.) and registered during UL transition period. We listed builder as Apollo North America not Krucker Manufacturing on the registeration application. You were hoping that trike was our design (Apollo Aircraft, Inc.).
> Apollo North America is our trike school. The pilot was checked out by a trike CFI who is in Arizona currently. Perhaps you should contact him and satisfy your curiosity.
> But there are no trikes or LSA's of any single company being restricted from flying and breaking up in the air in these numbers in US, Holland, UK and other countries and their CAA's are not coming to these conclusions either. I can't change the FAA and UK and Holland's CAA's mind. I think they are all coming to these conclusions because they have a good reason to and no I don't believe they are all stupid at the same time either.
> Abid
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> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "r" <lightflyer@> wrote:
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> > > Here is an excerpt from the report that should satisfy you who designed and manufactured the trike kit:
> > > "N304AP, serial number KLM0004, was an experimental weight-shift-control light sport aircraft, Manufactured by Apollo North America Inc
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> > Sorry Abid, but is this a DIFFERENT Apollo North American?
> > I'm not really familiar with the weight shift models so maybe there's another?
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> > Maybe this Apolla North American trike was being flown by someone without proper training, seems like an instructor or salesman or somebody should have taught the unfortunate pilot that negative-G maneuvers would kill him? Do you know wher(or IF) he got any training in weight shift aircraft?
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> > No big deal, I have no real interest in these planes, just showing that we as pilots can break our aircraft if we go outside the envelope.
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> > Rick
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