Osprey Aircraft GP-4
Brad J. Boss
Paul Porter wrote:
>
> According to the material kit price as found in
> Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
> with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
> awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
> there would be more talk of these.
>
> If anyone has WWW links or other info, please post !!!
>
> TIA,
> Paul
I have read that these airplanes require in excess of 2-3000 hours to
complete, and require powerful,expensive certified aircraft engines.
Paul Porter
I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
Batjac
Paul Porter wrote:
>
> I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
> references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
> of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
Paul,
According to my December '95 Kitplanes kit/plans index (I loaned out my
'96 and haven't gotten in back :/ ) the buiding time is listed as 3000
hours.
Multiply that by your favorite fudge factor...
Fred I. Mahan
A local builder is about to start taxi tests in his GP-4. I think he has
about 4500 hours in the project.
mhoskins
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------4DF34E5F38D5
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Paul Porter wrote:
>
> I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
> references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
> of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
>
> According to the material kit price as found in
> Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
> with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
> awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
> there would be more talk of these.
>
> If anyone has WWW links or other info, please post !!!
>
> TIA,
> Paul
Your looking at 4000 plus hours unless you have built one before. Their
like a large model. Lots of small wood parts. You would need
considerable patients to build. I received a brochure from Osprey a few
years ago and in a hand writen note they stated that they had sold 300
plus plans but they were aware of only 4 flying. Personaly I get the
feeling that mose people lose interest if they even start the GP4
project. It's a good looking high performance plane if you have the time
and money.
Regards
Monte :-)
--------------4DF34E5F38D5
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="Gp4.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Gp4.jpg"
<encoded_portion_removed>
Qa5JONTmTlJSblFKE5KUoU2qceVUm6oA/9k=
--------------4DF34E5F38D5--
Duncan Charlton
Paul Porter <gm...@lightspeed.net> wrote in article
<9147cd$131a0.2af@LSNT1>...
> I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
> references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
> of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
>
> According to the material kit price as found in
> Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
> with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
> awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
> there would be more talk of these.
>
> If anyone has WWW links or other info, please post !!!
>
> TIA,
> Paul
There's one under construction in Austin, TX. Send message to
derfl...@aol.com (president local EAA chapter 187) to find out how to get
in touch with the builder. Tony Bingelis has been watching and assisting
in its construction.
Duncan
Charles Crosby
Brad J. Boss (bos...@sprintmail.com) wrote:
: Paul Porter wrote:
: >
: > According to the material kit price as found in
: > Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
: > with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
: > awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
: > there would be more talk of these.
: >
: > If anyone has WWW links or other info, please post !!!
: I have read that these airplanes require in excess of 2-3000 hours to
: complete, and require powerful,expensive certified aircraft engines.
You mean, just like a Lancair, a Glassair or an RV? ;-)
Charles
--
snow
gm...@lightspeed.net (Paul Porter) wrote:
>I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
>references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
>of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
>According to the material kit price as found in
>Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
>with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
>awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
>there would be more talk of these.
Paul I don't think you'll find a great deal on the web about it. FYI:
the GP4 is a great high performance wood design aircraft by George
Pereira (Thus the designation). Stated Cruise @ 75% is 240mph. The
plane has nice sleek lines and retractable gear.
The only disadvantage to it is that you need a lot of room (25ft -
30ft min.) as the main spar is one continuous beam. However, this may
make it easier when you go to mount the wings on the craft.
Jack Yoder's completed and flying GP-4 was in Sport Aviation's
completed section but I was not able to find him at Sun n' Fun this
year to check it out in person. However, I did see a few of his
OSPREY's, another design by George and was very impressed with the
wood construction I saw.
If you are good with wood and want a quality design it may be the
right choice for you. Contact the horse's mouth (George) directly at
916-483-3004 before 9am or 7-9pm Pacific time. Or send away for his
$15 literature kit.
George Pereira
3741 El Ricon Way
Dept. SA
Sacramento CA 95864
--Bill
EAA133
not associated in anyway with anybody ;)
------------------------------------------------
This posting has been Super-SPAM-Protected....
to reply via e-mail remove the "spp" FIGHT SPAM!
X-no-archive: yes
Roger Halstead
Jack Yoder of Midland Michigan has one up and flying.
At the time it was, I believe # 5., although only 4 were flying as one had
crashed.
Jack finished it in time to fly it to Oshkosh this year.
He has a 260 HP Lycoming, two blade constant speed prop, and manual retract
on the landing gear.
There is information on Jack's GP-4 in EAA Chapter 1093's October 96
Newsletter at http://members.tm.net/rdhalste/octnews.htm and also at
http://members.mdn.net/lpowell/ccandy.htm.
--
Roger Halstead K8RI and EAA Chapter 1093 Historian
N833R World's oldest Debonair? S# CD-2
http://members.tm.net/rdhalste
Paul Porter <gm...@lightspeed.net> wrote in article
<9147cd$131a0.2af@LSNT1>...
> I am interested in the GP-4, however, I haven't seen many
> references to it on the Web. Does anyone know how many
> of these are flying, what the average build time is, etc... ???
>
> According to the material kit price as found in
> Wick's Aircraft Supplies, the materials are around $12k
> with the plans available for $365. With such a great design,
> awesome performance, and low price ;-> I would think
> there would be more talk of these.
>
> If anyone has WWW links or other info, please post !!!
>
> TIA,
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
Glafira
I have the info kit, it's a beautiful plane and seems very well done.
There was some discussion on AOL but I haven't seen messages for a while.
I don't have the flying experience that a high performance aircraft like
this would require. Someday though!! I will order the plans as soon as I
can get just a few more projects done. There's never any end to other
things to do.
There is an article in Sport Aviation, Oct 1994. It says about as much as
the info pack