Morocketman(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: RV-10 Versus Cirrus |
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Hey listers, did you catch the line after Tom Olsen's name..............RV-10 "Flying".........? He has absolutely made the point! The -10 is, as he says, "a poor man's Cirrus." And it will never compete with a certified airplane on a level pricing field. That is what we all love about EXPERIMENTAL AIRPLANES.
Tom was criticized for mentioning some anatomical items from the lower extremes, so I won't mention what I was "laughing off" when I read the current issues of magazines espousing the Mooney Acclaim to be the fastest piston powered single-engined airplane in the world. They claimed 236 knots on one trip at flight level 250. That was at 94% power and 22 gph. And bless you Gretchen, (Jahn) with only two people on board.
My Harmon Rocket II with 30 less horsepower will blow the doors off the Acclaim. It will fly it at 206 knots at 75% power at 12.8 gph, but I fly it at 65% power burning only 9.3gph and 186 knots at 10,000 feet MSL. Do you want a piece of that? The very best part is that I only invested one fifth of the $495,000 price of the Mooney. (Yes! It is glass cockpit, with traffic alert, coupled autopilot, and IFR redundancy.)
Having flown both the RV-10, and an SR-20, I would love to express my opinion of which is a much better handling airplane, but I have too many friends in Duluth.
Want to worry about something? Advocate to your Congressman not to eliminate Experiment Aviation from our vocabulary.
I just love it! Signed, "Cheap... Pilot"
Les Featherston Harmon Rocket II "Airgasm" has 278 hrs and is not the fastest P-P-S in the world.
And please DO NOT ARCHIVE
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