Most impressive sports aircraft ever ?

[t-dub]

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This one gets my vote...

http://www.polenspecial.com/polen_special.htm

https://www.leica-geosystems.com/common/shared/downloads/inc/downloader.asp?id=6369

Cheers,

Geoff S.

Bravo! What an awesome aircraft. Early seventies? This plane was revolutionary in the sport aircraft industry. I'd love to see it at Reno.........

[stuntflyr]

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Falco F8.L

This one again falls into the cruiser genre, but it's aerobatic, fuel efficient, pretty fast (200+ on 180HP) and one of the most elegant airplanes ever built.

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Yeah, but when people paint them white spectators think they are plastic! Paint 'em red.

[RB77fan]

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i absolutly love thunder stangsthatnk to all on the team

[First time Juke]

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The Questair Venture suffered early on with landing gear problems due to it's compact, somewhat uncovential design. However Jim Griswold, the lead designer, continued to improve the design long after he was no longer involved with the company and today the aircrafts ground handling is comparable with other high performance aircraft. There is also a fixed gear model that has had sucess at Reno racing against retractable gear Glasairs and SX 300.
The early fuel system was designed to meet a proposed FAA design criteria, which required flapper valves and a small reservoir. Fuel starvation could result if a number of components did not work optimally together. This system has been all but abandoned, with a simpler, reliable system recommended.
An active owners and builders group offer constant info and advice on the aircraft, recommendations that are valuable for building and maintaining this speedster.
Please note that this aircraft is a 20 year old design, specific to carry 2 people cross country efficiently and effectively while offering a stable IFR platform in flight, and yet it is still reasonably competitive at Reno when in the mix with the new crop of purpose built racers.

This is all very good to hear. I wonder what the kit costs today... or is it like White Lightning..molds have been long destroyed ?

[f1-69]

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the orig quickie 1 did 100 mph on 18hp that is crazy.imagine one with an o-200 racin in f1 that would be to cool.

[Red]

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Danny Mortesen raced a modified one in the biplane class. Got into some wake around the scatter pylon at the start one year and slammed into the desert. He walked away with only a small scratch on his thumb. One of the most scary and spectacular things I've ever witnessed.

[f1-69]

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how fast was it?

[First time Juke]

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how fast was it?

235 mph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSOIL_Racer

[f1-69]

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that wasnt the amsoil racer was it?

[f1-69]

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sorry looked at the pictures u sent and answered my own question.

[First time Juke]

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I think Mortensen was the pilot on Amsoil Racer.

I checked that White Lightning had 47 MPG and regular Piper Arrow with same IO-360 has 26 MPG. Difference is 45% when the "pedal is at the metal".

White Lightning has gotta be the most economical four seater ever built ?

[f1-69]

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alot of people overlook the bd-4 ,I think cause it not so pretty. But it is a four seat 200 mph airplane on an o-360, thats hard to find,and u can pick one up for 20-30,000$, thats good considering we just payed 550,000 for a new cirrus.

[First time Juke]

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Correct 192 mph and IO-360 engine ( 200 hp ) for BD-4.

They give only 20 mpg...possibly my estimate above is overrated a bit ( cause the speeds are possibly flown with just one person and cruise speed is thus much lower or consumption at top speed higher ).

[f1-69]

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does anyone know of any other owl wings, other than mine and miss usa. I think there where only 4 made not sure, I talked to thom richards who owns miss usa and there big differences between his and mine even.

[Race5]

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Pogo is still around, and probably the only complete OWL left as far as I know.

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N8787.html