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    Does anyone know who makes the neat little MFD in he upper right corner of the panel? Never seen that one before and it looks intriguing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frankbeagle View Post
    It was back in the early 90s we had a guy show up on the Farm with a jet powered Mitchell Wing. He had used an APU that developed about 150lbs of thrust. He could only fly it for 18mins before he used up his 5 gals of fuel and he had to land before that happened or it would run out of lube.

    I was on the main airshow announcing stand and in radio contact with Jamie Kee on the radio. He let me know 1 min before he was ready to take off on 36. I was chatting with Roscoe, Larry, Wayne and a few other anouncers. We all had mics on and they could hear the sound of the jet engine but they couldn't find it! They were looking way too far ahead of the noise!!!! We had a ball talking about the pilot wearing full leathers, white with flames with the line "Kick the tires and light the fires" on the back.

    He flew north on 36, made one pass and landed back on the U/L strip.

    Roscoe and the guys said for all the noise he sure wasn't going anywhere. I reminded them and the audience that ultralights were resticted to 55kts and that's what he was doing.

    It was a hoot!!!!


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    I was there also. It was strange to ear a jet moving slowly behind the trees approaching the field. I couldn't forget it. Jack McCornack brought his twin-jet Dac to AirVenture once but didn't have enough time on it to fly there. I did get to see him fly at the 2004 Nationals in Scottsburg Indiana. The igniters were burned out on his RC jets so I loaned him a lighter. His started first on propane then switched to kerosene. Those that haven't seen it check out "Larry flies jet turboprop ultralight on Youtube. Cool sound there.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaEoBtxdzE

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Point View Post
    Does anyone know who makes the neat little MFD in he upper right corner of the panel? Never seen that one before and it looks intriguing.
    Looks like a Funkwerks BFI-157 http://swiftavionics.com.au/shop/bfi...ht-instrument/

    More photos of the aircraft, etc., are at: http://speleotrove.com/sirocco/G-2DROCO.html

    Mike Cowlishaw
    Last edited by mfc; 12-22-2011 at 04:00 AM.

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