Re: Open Cirrus for sale

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On Tuesday, May 18, 1999 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Shane Andersen wrote:
> An Open Cirrus? What's that? There's a Cirrus and a Standard Cirrus but I
> don't believe there was ever an Open Cirrus.
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> FBCOMPTON wrote in message >...
> >What is the manufacturer's (SH) serial number of this Open Cirrus?
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> >Burt Compton
> >Open Cirrus # 33
> >Miami, Florida USA

You're just too young. If you can get a copy of the old video "The Sunship Game" which though very dated, every soaring pilot should see, you will see George Moffat flying his Open Cirrus.

[Bob Kuykendall]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:26:34 PM UTC-7, wrote:

> You're just too young...

Two points:

* The post to which you are responding was put up in 1999. So Shane is now fifteen years older.

* I think that Shane has a point in that the "Open" in "Open Cirrus" is an informal designation, and the factory never called them that. The term seems to have been a retronym that later came into use when it was necessary to differentiate the original Cirri from their later Standard-class brethren.

Thanks, Bob K.

[Frank Whiteley]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:27:06 PM UTC-6, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:26:34 PM UTC-7, wrote:
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> > You're just too young...
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> Two points:
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> * The post to which you are responding was put up in 1999. So Shane is now fifteen years older.
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> * I think that Shane has a point in that the "Open" in "Open Cirrus" is an informal designation, and the factory never called them that. The term seems to have been a retronym that later came into use when it was necessary to differentiate the original Cirri from their later Standard-class brethren.