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Joined: 10 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: old Sport aviation |
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A local dropped off his old Sport Aviation collection. Complete back into the 50's. Really neat airplanes and quite a few are LSA legal.
What got my attention is pages and pages of homebuilts of all different types. Years of them. Deltas, V tails, STOL, hang gliders, canards, flying wings, biplanes, P-51 replicas etc.
Pages of VW and other engine conversions. Even a Vega 4 cylinder. Rotarys, Turbos, 2 strokes. And I'm only up to 1973
Where are they now? Who's got a one off old homebuilt at their airport?
Pitts, Smith mini, Sidewinder, Stits, Spezio, etc.
I have a Flybaby built in 1965 that flew to Rockford and Oshkosh. Still in flyable condition and over 1500 hours on the clock. Builder was a B-26 pilot in WWII. The vertical speed indicator is from his bomber. Has a complete log of every flight and pilot since day one. |
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