Open Cirrus for sale

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.


FBCOMPTON wrote in message ...
What is the manufacturer's (SH) serial number of this Open Cirrus?

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.

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.

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:



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.