Sun 'N Fun 2010 - Airplanes |
| One of my favorite planes, the Air-Cam,
on floats. |
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Bruce and I saw this Legend Cub on amphibious floats in
Marathon, Florida back in January. The tailnumber, N15LC, is very
close to my RV's tailnumber. . |
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| A Thacher CX4. You
can build one of these for less than $15,000. It's powered by a
Great Plains VW engine. |
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A nicely-polished Sonex. |
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| This Mustang II ... |
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| has quite a few hours on it:
2600. |
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The sleek Lancair. |
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| Of course, no web log of Sun 'N Fun
could be complete without a picture of the flying rowboat! |
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Piper's new Light Sport airplane. Very
nice. |
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| Five Titan Mustangs. Very
realistic. |
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| Bruce checking out this well polished
Aircoupe. |
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| Big Beaver. |
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Not sure what this is. There were very few biplanes
at SNF this year. |
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| The Sikorsky amphibian. |
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Now I wouldn't mind having one of these: a brand new
Extra 300L. |
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| This is one of the premier aerobatic
planes. Unfortunately they cost over $335,000. |
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| But I'd really, really like to have
this MX-2. This currently IS the premier aerobatic airplane.
It's capable of 14Gs. The roll rate has to be seen to be
believed. |
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| Greg Koontz put on a great airshow
routine as always in his American Champion Decathelon. |
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Bill Finagin is an aerobatic airshow pilot based out of
nearby Lee Airport in Annapolis. But I've never seen him fly.
I finally got to see him perform in his Pitts in Tuesday's
airshow. |
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| John Mohr put on a great routine
in his stock Stearman. |
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There was an old Kolb Ultrastar in the ultralight
section. I'd see him flying around in the early morning and late
evening when they let the Ultralights fly. It was good to see the
old Ultrastar fly. Bruce and I owned one over 10 years
ago. It was a lot of fun. |
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| The Ultrastar (on the right) flying
around in the morning. |
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| Who says flying has to be
expensive? This airplane was for sale for $2,500. Trailer
included! |
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| Dale "Snort" Snodgrass, the highest
time F-14 pilot with 4800 hours in that aircraft, flew this MS760, a
four-seat, twin-engine, personal jet. It was designed, manufactured
and certified in France in the 1960's for the French Air Force as a
Liaison and Utility turbojet aircraft with full aerobatic
capability. |
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