Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Designers: Where are the LSA Aerobatic Planes?

Thanks for the report Bill, I plan on going next year... I retire in 33 days!
John

On Saturday 18 September 2010 11:06:55 pm Bill wrote:
> Just sitting here at the Reno Air Races and they have 4 SLSA's on display.
> They have Cessna's s/n 8, Sonnex, and 2 I'd not heard of before. One is a
> CarbonCub they have outfitted with lots of stuff and balloon tires. They
> wanted 140k for that one. They have this one ready for SLSA, Kit-ELSA, and
> ExAB. The same plane when built as ExAB *can* be placarded at about
> 1900GW, or at 1320 =)
> The other plane I saw was a fresh outta the crate Piper SLSA that was
> brought in from the Czech Republic. The Piper is running the Rotax 912.
>
> I also saw the predator with a Rotax 914 and it had a turbo added. They
> claim 107hp and I figure the turbo is so they can have most of that at
> 30k'.
>
> The racing has been great, several MayDay's, but every plane landed and all
> can be rebuilt to fly again. No injuries!
>
> There have been several new things, the Marines brought in the Osprey from
> the east coast. They still seem quite hesitant flying that, it took
> forever for the pilot to land it.
>
> Today after the Snowbirds performed, they treated us to running the race
> course for a lap. They even did a little passing and horsing around. The
> crowd was going nuts, but the announcer said the biggest smiles were on
> the faces of the Snowbird pilots. They had been looking forward to that
> for quite a while. It is rare for the military to do laps, but it happens
> from time to time. The 9 Snowbirds were the largest group to do it as far
> as I can remember. Most of the time it is one or two jets showing off
> their afterburners, not the pro demo teams.
>
> Strega is the plane to beat, Voodoo overheated today, Rare Bear has been
> foaming the oil, and Miss America is ready to win when those 3 blow up
> tomorrow!
>
> Bill Watson
> bill@sportpilot.info
>

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