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Does anyone have experience or expertise to offer on the SP20 or SP26 Micco aircraft. looking for any helpful info.
I pretty much agree with all of this, based on my too-short ownership of a Pitts S2A (sortof) experimental. However, my 2-day, 1400 nm excursion from Jacksonville to Gastons will stick forever in my mind as the two really, really bad days.I guess it depends on how serious you are about tipping the scales toward acro vs. XC comfort. I've owned some pretty comfortable aircraft over the last 10 years, the latest traveling airplane a Columbia 400 which I sold a year ago. I've owned my Pitts S2C now for 6 years and I'll own that plane for the foreseeable future. It's a hotrod, 2 place, aerobatic plane that makes few compromises for comfort but is the most fun airplane that's ever been made. It's really not a XC aircraft - limited fuel, no heat, no baggage space if two on board, day VFR only, no autopilot. And yet. I've flown one of my daughters back to college in it on more than one occasion (~200 miles away). I've made more personal memories and made more special moments for anyone that's ever flown with me in that plane that any of the other several aircraft I've owned.
But, in case it matters, I plan for about 140 kts cruise in it with two hours of endurance.
PittsDriver, well said. I picked up on the sentiment conveyed, and indeed it's the memories I'm after.
Still I have to decide on a particular model at some point. So I continue to search and consider anything with a tailwheel.
Am also curious, you made reference to Aerobatic Upset Training. Would love to hear more on that topic. I think that would just be some good healthy exercise.
Not the only tail wheel retract: Swifts, Beech Staggerwings, Spartan Executives, and a large variety of the old twins
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Not the only tail wheel retract: Swifts, Beech Staggerwings, Spartan Executives, and a large variety of the old twins