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Aerosport Quail - high wing, all metal, no struts

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Dan E

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Sep 18, 2002, 1:12:06 AM9/18/02
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Does anyone know what happened to the Aerosport Co. that sold plans/kits(?)
for the Quail?

Are plans still available?


Ron Wanttaja

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Sep 18, 2002, 1:22:33 AM9/18/02
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See

http://users.ev1.net/%7Estol/gunasekera-12.htm

Ron Wanttaja

Dan Thomas

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Sep 18, 2002, 7:39:32 PM9/18/02
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"Dan E" <5bu...@pionet.net> wrote in message news:<uofrb3k...@corp.supernews.com>...

> Does anyone know what happened to the Aerosport Co. that sold plans/kits(?)
> for the Quail?
>
> Are plans still available?


The designer was killed in the '70s in the test-flight crash of
the new two-place Quail he had built. Aileron flutter, If I recall. I
had called them to find out about the progress of this machine, having
read about it in a magazine, and received the bad news. I don't know
if they're still around.
Dan

Ida Covey

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Sep 18, 2002, 9:09:40 PM9/18/02
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A local EAAer - a personal friend of the designer - has a Quail that he
built. He has flown it for over 1,000 hours. There's a nice article about
the builder and the airplane in the most recent issue of Jack Cox's
"Sportsman Pilot" magazine.

I'll see the builder tomorrow evening. I suspect that he can answer all of
your questions here within a few days. The designer's widow is still an
active member of EAA Chapter 506, as is her son, a local A&P/AI/DAR.

BJC


Bradley Johnston

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Sep 19, 2002, 1:14:22 PM9/19/02
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check out....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fly_Aerosport

or

http://www.vula.org

"Dan E" <5bu...@pionet.net> wrote in message news:<uofrb3k...@corp.supernews.com>...

J.D.

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Sep 24, 2002, 12:01:54 AM9/24/02
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And they both just joined the Aerosport Forum last month.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fly_Aerosport


J.D.
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