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.