ORIGINAL: vellum2
I'd really forgotten how beautiful the Brushfire was Dan!
UAL - Love the color scheme on that one. Perhaps time for a revival?
All the Brushfires I remember had the pipe mounted on top like yours. Seems like a much better way to go. A bit Arrow-esque with the classic Phoenix lines. You've just gotta love em.
Anyone remember Howard Morin flying his beat up old red one? That kid rocked with his.
joe W.
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I saw Wolfgang Matt fly his Super Arrow at the TOC in Las Vegas back around 1977 or so.
This got me thinking about the advantages of the RE engine and keeping the pipe on the centerline.
This enables putting the center-of-drag, the lateral CG, and the center-of-thrust, all on the centerline
of the fuselage. The plane is much more aerodynamically symmetrical.
JC