On Feb 21, 8:46*am, "Anyolmouse" wrote:
"William Hung" wrote in message
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On Feb 20, 9:23 pm, "Anyolmouse" wrote: "William Hung" wrote in message
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| Can someone ID this airplane?
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|http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1093439/
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| No, not the gyro in front of it, the plane behind the gyro with the
| twin boon. Three brownie point to the first enthusiast able to ID
| this plane.
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| Thanks,
| Wil
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Here it is folks:http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1082359/designed by
Chuck Herbst.
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Anyolmouse
Confirmed! *Thanks Anyolmouse, you are definitely our winner. *Three
brownie points for you!
That's agreat picture BTW.
Thanks again,
Wil
I would rather have just one good brownieW/nuts. The key to finding the
picture was a search for Chuck Herbst after finding out he was the
designer. This produced the N# which led to the picture by Keith Sowter.
I had already emailed Keith asking if he had any additional information
on the Sparrow Hawk. I received his reply this AM:
Thanks for your Interest in my photograph
This was one of three such aircraft , Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk Mk.II,
that were imported into the UK in the Mid 1980's - I first saw them as a
group in a Hangar at Swanton Morley .
I believe that only one was made airworthy, N8728A, - here is a photo of
it that I took at an air show at Norwich
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1082359/
The owners of the Sparrowhawk *were present when I took the picture of
the Bensen and stated that they "could'nt remember the Registration" at
that time , They stated that the other two airframes had returned to the
USA.
It was their intention to restore the aircraft to flyiong condition.
Hope this helps
Keith
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Anyolmouse
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The Sparrow Hawk is a project, I worked on in our shop back in 2005.
This Sparrow Hawk was bought from
a owner in the midwest, with both tail booms damaged from a hard flare
tail first landing. We installed new tail booms
and rebuilt many parts for it. I talked to the owner about it from
Iowa last night and it is going to be a project for him
when he retires.
The owner of the one in the picture is from the state of Washington.
He also said that only 3 were built.
A picture of a Vampire was in the last GA News, page 14, at the LSA
Sebring, Fla. Fly-in.
If any one wants any other information about it call or write me.
262-857-7500, web site
www.fitzair.net
e-mail
Larry Fitzgerald