"John" wrote in message
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wrote:

Two things I noticed was
1. The eurofox had ~10% longer wingspan and ~14% wingarea
(which makes me wonder how the Escapade has 39% lower stall speed)
2. The Escapade can be made (yes it is kit and euro is assembled) as a
taildragger or tricycle, I know if I was doing specs I'd use the
tail dragger version to gain about 3-5 mph.

So taildragger vs tri gear and shorter smaller chord wing that could be
the
difference (don't know bout the stall thing thou). The Escapade kept
switching between the 80 and 100 hp version on it's various specs and also
seems to be in the development state whereas the Eurofox was consistent
and
is already availiable in Europe. Cost of about $55 k at current euro
conversions is quite a bit lower than current SLSA's here. Althought I
didn't see any mention of it haveing acheived SLSA status here yet.
John


The Escapade has been approved to BCAR Section S in the UK for the past
couple of years and is selling well here. It's currently being approved to
CS-VLA at 499kg MTOW and will be available in that version very soon.

See the UK manufacturers website he www.realityaircraft.com for
accurate, independent, flight test data on performance, straight from the
certification flight test programme. The Escapade is now manufactured here
in the UK, as well as at the Just Aircraft plant, now re-located from Idaho
to South Carolina.

I part designed the Escapade, so may exhibit a slight bias, please feel free
to ignore it..................