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Michael1
Joined: 03 May 2011
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject: Luscombe Silvaire LSA-8 |
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I happened to run across the Luscombe Silvaire LSA-8. Beautiful plane. It's even available with a Rotec R2800 radial engine!
Anyone have any experience with this plane? |
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NCPilot
Joined: 14 Oct 2010
Posts: 111
Location: North Carolina, USA
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, that looks alot like a Cessna 140! Looks like a great aircraft. :) |
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zaitcev
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
Posts: 258
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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The story with Rotec-powered Luscombe is extremely murky. The only one that I know is mentioned in this message:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/luscombe-silvaire/message/45669
Quote: Last year I talked to one of the staff at Flabob and he said that the Rotec powered Phantom II was built from the last of the fuselages built at Cape Girardeau.
If you "run across" one, it's going to be a miracle.
The story of repeated relocations and attempts to restart the production of Luscombe is the craziest even among the LSAs. I gave up on trying to make any sense of what is going on with it. |
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