Tuesday 6 September 2011

Sywell Rally

On Saturday I visited the LAA Rally at Sywell.

I was surprised not to see any Silence Twisters there. Lots of other interesting aircraft though - with the highlight for me being the Mew Gull. A single-seater taildragger with amazing performance (faster than a Hurricane at sea-level) but poor visibility from that cockpit and what seems to me to be quite small tail surfaces. The tailplane seemed about half the surface area of the Twister (and this thing has 205hp)

Also there was an RV-8 that was painted orange (flat rather than metallic) even the cockpit was orange! (and I thought I liked orange).

Mew Gull

RV-8 - agent orange

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