The Sportsman 2 + 2, introduced last summer as a taildragger,
has been converted to tricycle mode. The change from tail wheel to
nose wheel took one hour and sixteen minutes. "There was some
learning involved," said New GlaStar President, Mikael Via. "The
next time we expect to complete the operation in less than an
hour."
EAA’s Earl Lawrence and Joe Norris were at the
Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) in Oklahoma City (OK), this
week to help instruct the second of three scheduled amateur-built
designated airworthiness representative (AB-DAR) courses. The
course, required by FAA for individuals who wish to volunteer their
services to perform airworthiness inspections on newly finished
homebuilt aircraft, runs March 30 through April 1. This is
chronologically the second course to be conducted, but it’s
actually the third to be scheduled after high demand created a
waiting list for the June 8-10 course. The first course was held
January 27-29.
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