Re: KRnet> Aircraft origins

2023-04-11 Thread OldBird via KRnet
Hmmm... thanks for the history... used to want a GY-20 badly (when I was a quarter century younger and 100 pounds lighter), but I didn't realize that the GY-20 and Cavalier shared genes...  Interesting...   -- Larry Colonial Beach, VA On Monday, April 10, 2023 at 05:46:19 PM EDT, MS wrote

Re: KRnet> Aircraft origins

2023-04-10 Thread Tony King via KRnet
I owned a GY20 Minicab until a couple of years ago. Beautiful aircraft. Mine had an O-200 so it got along quite nicely (although not as fast as a KR). It could reach Vne (104 kts) straight and level. Cruised at 95 kts no trouble at all, which I thought was pretty good for an O200 powered aircra

KRnet> Aircraft origins

2023-04-10 Thread MS
I came across something recently that mentioned the Stits Playboy as being the progenitor of the RV-3.  Wikipedia says they are variants of each other.   Whoever created that entry must not know about the RV-1.  (I wonder if there was an RV-2?)   I think there's only one RV-1.  It gets star bill