Gavin McGill wrote: > This aircraft really is a bit of a mystery. It turned up in New Zealand > at > a NZ Sport Aircraft Association Fly-In at Tauranga airfield in 2008 (see > link below) but has since seemingly disappeared off the face of the > planet.
That plane had a relatively high stall speed due to the thinner wing and different airfoil. Without back checking, I think it's a 23012, which has a pretty sharp stall characteristic. I hope the new pilot was aware of that when he bought it, and didn't drink the RR Koolaid on stall speeds. I stood by the runway at one of the early Gatherings and photographed Roy landing. Although it was relatively calm (as I recall) it was a pretty hot landing. I was well off the runway, but the wing almost got me in the somewhat hairy landing... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
