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     1. 07:39 PM - Re: Gear Legs retrofit  (Craymondw@aol.com)
 
 
 
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Time: 07:39:31 PM PST US
From: Craymondw@aol.com
Subject: Re: Glasair-List: Gear Legs retrofit

Jeff,
    The scuttle bug is that the New Glasair is more  interested in the 
Glastar air craft. I don't think a company can offer two  diverse aircraft and
put 
the same effort into both. If the New Glasair does not  in fact have the same 
interest in its high performance planes, I feel they  should sell off the high

performance line. Charlie Gray on Merrit Island  Florida and Ken Johnson 
appear to have all the details for making Glasairs  faster. If all proven 
modifications and cheaper manufacturing techniques  where incorporated into a modified

version of lets say, a Glasair 111S or a  Glasair 2SSX, then maybe sales would

pick up. But you have to also factor in the  high cost of 100LL that may in 
the end, make the new Sport Aircraft running on  auto fuel the only affordable

way of getting into the air. I used to take twenty  trips a year in my Glasair

with some trips taking twenty hours using a  little over $400 fuel. Now the 
fuel for those twenty hours runs well over a  $1,000, ouch!!  My airfield for 
instance use to have the hangers full  of certified and experimental aircraft.

Just walking around the field, it  appears half hangers are now filled with 
Light Sport Aircraft. Kind of  sad when you think of it, I feel like I am part

of a dying and passing era in  aviation.


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