saw the Lionheart yesterday....

[Tom Callahan]

I was at the Madison County Executive Airport yesterday (that's the Madison
County in Alabama, home to Marshall Space Flight Center) and I got to see
them start up and fly away in the Lionheart. I lived there when it was
built and I remember them flying around the airfield for hours getting
enough time logged to be allowed to fly to Oskosh for the airshow. It was
unpainted then. It's a beautiful yellow now.

[CWO4 Dave Mann]

Tom Callahan wrote:
> I was at the Madison County Executive Airport yesterday (that's the Madison
> County in Alabama, home to Marshall Space Flight Center) and I got to see
> them start up and fly away in the Lionheart. I lived there when it was
> built and I remember them flying around the airfield for hours getting
> enough time logged to be allowed to fly to Oskosh for the airshow. It was
> unpainted then. It's a beautiful yellow now.
>
>
>

Tom, what's the story on this aeroplane. It is -- in a word -- beautiful!

Cheers

Dave

[CWO4 Dave Mann]

Tom Callahan wrote:
> I was at the Madison County Executive Airport yesterday (that's the Madison
> County in Alabama, home to Marshall Space Flight Center) and I got to see
> them start up and fly away in the Lionheart. I lived there when it was
> built and I remember them flying around the airfield for hours getting
> enough time logged to be allowed to fly to Oskosh for the airshow. It was
> unpainted then. It's a beautiful yellow now.
>
>
>

Tom, what's the story on this aeroplane. It is -- in a word -- beautiful!

Cheers

Dave

[Mitchell Holman]

"Tom Callahan" > wrote in
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Classy.

But what happened to its wheel pants?

[Mitchell Holman]

"Tom Callahan" > wrote in
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Classy.

But what happened to its wheel pants?

[Tom Callahan]

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[Tom Callahan]

[Joe Friday]

Welcome Home, tho only for a visit. LOVE that plane.....Staggerwings are
one of my favorites!!

[Joe Friday[_1_]]

Welcome Home, tho only for a visit. LOVE that plane.....Staggerwings are
one of my favorites!!

[Ray O'Hara]

"Mitchell Holman" > wrote in message
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> "Tom Callahan" > wrote in
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> Classy.
>
> But what happened to its wheel pants?
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the original is prettier.

[Ray O'Hara]

"Mitchell Holman" > wrote in message
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> "Tom Callahan" > wrote in
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> Classy.
>
> But what happened to its wheel pants?
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the original is prettier.

[Boomerang]

Check it out http://www.griffon-aerospace.com/lionheart/

[Boomerang]

Check it out http://www.griffon-aerospace.com/lionheart/

[Papa Fox]

The gear seems unnecessarily long. Not needed that long to clear the
prop, or at least the one seen installed. Is it to allow for
higher-angle departures? Or was the gear originally designed for
sonething else and it is what it is? P.


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:58:14 -0600, "Tom Callahan"
> wrote:

[Papa Fox]

The gear seems unnecessarily long. Not needed that long to clear the
prop, or at least the one seen installed. Is it to allow for
higher-angle departures? Or was the gear originally designed for
sonething else and it is what it is? P.


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:58:14 -0600, "Tom Callahan"
> wrote: