Chris,
That description sounds like one of Burt Rutan's designs, such as the
Varieze or Longeze, the ones that are parked empty with the nose wheel
folded. I've seen them, but have no experience with them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Moose: Example of Fujifilm F10 Resolution
> The part that I could see certainly looked lovely, Jim.
>
> Two or 3 years ago I had a trip in a home-built machine, one of the
> gorgeous foreplane machines with a pusher prop designed by a famous US
> designer (but whose name escapes me at this time of night :-)). The
> builder was an engineer, not a pilot, and the attention to detail was
> fantastic.
>
> It was very strange to take-off, very heavy on the little side-stick
> control column, but great fun and very fast. It was fore and aft
> seating so it reminded me (a little) of heavier and vastly faster
> machines than what I fly now (a Grob 115e).
>
> Chris
> (and no, I didn't look very closely at the lighting setup on the
> machine in which I had a wonderful joy-ride :-))
>
> On 8 Dec 2008, at 17:42, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> As I recall, the aircraft was a homebuilt kit plane, beautifully
>> finished.
>> I'm no longer flying, so I am not current on the latest lighting
>> rules.
>> What impressed me was the overall fit and finish of the lighting
>> installation.
>
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