---------------------------------------------------------- Glasair-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 11/26/07: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 0. 12:05 AM - Make Sure You're Listed! List of Contributors Published Dec 1! (Matt Dralle) 1. 03:52 AM - Re: Gear Legs retrofit (darnpilot@aol.com) 2. 12:05 PM - Re: Gear Legs retrofit (Craymondw@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 0 _____________________________________ Time: 12:05:56 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Glasair-List: Make Sure You're Listed! List of Contributors Published Dec 1! Dear Listers, The List of Contributors (LOC) is just around the corner! On December 1st I post a list of everyone that so generously made a Contribution to support the Lists. Its my way of publicly thanking everyone that took a minute to show their appreciation for the Lists. 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Matt Dralle Matronics Email List Administrator ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 03:52:27 AM PST US Subject: Re: Glasair-List: Gear Legs retrofit From: darnpilot@aol.com Thanks for your comments.? The folks you mentioned in Merritt Island, who are they - and do they have a company or contact information? I know what you mean about gas, but compared to my Piper Lance, the Glasair III is so much more efficient...with the same engine...at least for flight only requiring me or one other person (90% of flights) Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Craymondw@aol.com Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:39 pm 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 airf ield 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. Check out AOL Money & Finance's list of the hottest products and top money wasters of 2007. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 12:05:30 PM PST US From: Craymondw@aol.com Subject: Re: Glasair-List: Gear Legs retrofit I feel the Glasair 111 is a wonderful plane. Unfortuneatly it took the builders to work out all the bugs of the plane and not Stoddard Hamilton. I wish that I didn't let Stoddard Hamilton's test pilot talk me out of it. But nearly everyone I know that owns one has had landing gear problems. Poor Chuck Downing (NASA Gemini/Appollo engineer) had two gears collapse that resulted in engine tear downs within a short period of time. With the high price of 100LL I think high performance experimentals are going to go the way of Warbirds. Back in the mid 1950's I could have purchased a P-51 for less than $6,000 and had a Hell Cat for free.!! But in the late 1950's gasoline went through big price hikes and I couldn't afford the fuel. By the looks of things, high performance experimentals are going to be afforded by only rich doctors etc. and not the average Joe pilot. When 100LL hits $8.00/ $10.00 per gallon Joe pilot is instead going to have to settle on Light Sport Aircraft using auto fuel. **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. 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