All About Light Sport Aircraft: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for light sport? [1 Attachment]

Friday, September 17, 2010

RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for light sport? [1 Attachment]

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Some one wrote: Of course....the entire purpose of the LSA category is really, low, slow and short distance.

THINK AGAIN. See the attached as to what can be done with a Sport Plane.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Norman
Sent: Sep 17, 2010 9:40 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, 'UltraJohn'
Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for light sport?

OK, so you want a fast LSA? Buy one, then rip out the tiny motor and replace it like the Cessna 150 Bush Conversion with 160HP engine. Just don't tell anyone and do it with your hangar doors closed.

If you want to go really fast, go get a PPL and a Vans RV8 or 9 or build a Glassair/Lancair/Velocity

Chris Norman, CEO

Digital Reality, Inc.

5118 Moss Garden Lane

Katy, TX 77494

512.297.5450 Mobile Direct

281-385-9727 Office

www.digitalrealitycorp.com

From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Norman
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:47 PM
To: 'UltraJohn'
Cc: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for light sport?

Well...I did not know that... wow...but leading edge droops and vortex
generators will still help a lot!

Chris Norman, CEO
Digital Reality, Inc.
5118 Moss Garden Lane
Katy, TX 77494

512.297.5450 Mobile Direct
281-385-9727 Office
www.digitalrealitycorp.com

-----Original Message-----
From: UltraJohn [mailto:japrice@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:29 PM
To: chris@digitalrealitycorp.com
Cc: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Older planes qualifying for
light sport?

Of course the flaps don't help since the stall speed is specified as "clean"

ie no flaps....
John

On Friday 17 September 2010 10:38:18 pm chris@digitalrealitycorp.com wrote:
> I want to chime in here.....supercharging or turbo normalizing can give
you
> better performance in higher thin air by maintaining sea level power.
>
> Micro vortex generators can lower stall speed. Spotted power flaps further
> lower stall speed.
>
> Leading edge droops improve stability and...
>
>
> All these can make a plane have a much bigger envelope.
>
> Of course....nthe entire purpose of the LSA category is really, low, slow
> and short distance.
>
> Chris Norman, CEO
> www.digitalrealitycorp.com