The Phoenix I through VIII and Curare are included in the SPA 1965 through 1975 approved aircraft. Anyone recall when the Tipo was designed? I think to have fun with any of these aircraft the SPA would need to allow pumped and piped engines along with retracts. SPA was formed to encourage people to get into pattern flying at a reasonable cost but I think the Tipo class aircraft meets that requirement because they aren’t too expensive to get flying.

Back in the early 90s there was a guy at our field that was a great pattern flyer and few a beautiful Speeda with a pumped engine on a pipe and tri gear retracts. I really enjoyed watching him fly the pattern with that rocket. It was so fast and graceful with monster size maneuvers. Slow rolls that could go almost from horizon to horizon. When you are flying them you really aren’t able to fully appreciate the overall impression created by these awesome aircraft.