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To: ZagFan

Looks like a kit plane like John Denver’s.


6 posted on 11/07/2017 1:58:50 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Puppage
Looks like a kit plane like John Denver’s.

Not a kit plane.

Denver was killed in a Long EZ, a Burt Rutan design, trying to change fuel tanks with a pair of pliers while on final.

The Long EZ is a canard aircraft - little wing up front (the canard), winglets, two-place tandem.

As for being stallproof, a canard is the only really stallproof aircraft type out there, short of some sort of automatic intervention when the AOA starts to get to the red zone.

19 posted on 11/07/2017 3:10:34 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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