A Fitting Tale For Our Annual April 1st Edition...
ANN APRIL 1st "SPECIAL" EDITION: A fitting
subject, we think, for our annual April 1st edition of Aero-News is
the feature we present today. It's a story about a guy who REALLY
loves his Mooney... enough to have its logo tattooed on him for
life.
On the opening day of AOPA Expo 2007, Mooney Aircraft Company
reasserted its claim for the world's fastest piston single. "We can
at last, completely and finally, put to rest any debate about what
piston single-engine airplane is the fastest: It's the Mooney
Acclaim, or to be more specific and precise, the new Mooney Acclaim
Type S," the company said.
"We've added more than a new designation to the Acclaim; we've
dramatically increased its top speed. The Type S truly stands for
speed: 242 knots of speed, and increased range, all with the
legendary aerodynamic purity that Mooney pilots appreciate."
Powered by a 280 hp Teledyne Continental Motors IO 550-G engine
equipped with dual Kelly Aerospace turbochargers, the Acclaim will
maintain sea level manifold pressure all the way to its service
ceiling of 25,000 feet. The new Acclaim Type S will also feature a
custom Hartzell propeller and design enhancements that improve
airflow and minimize drag, providing an additional 10 knots over
the top speed of 232 knots originally published in the aircraft's
POH.
But... most impressed was Acclaim owner and "Mooniac" Arthur
"Arty" Dowd... who demonstrated his loyalty by getting a tattoo of
the Mooney logo over his heart -- right at the Mooney exhibit on
day two of AOPA Expo.
So... in honor of our annual April 1st Edition and the fact that
wee couldn't quite find anything stranger to make up, we decided to
stick with reality and the tale of the Mooney Tattoo.
So... Tell Aero-TV How Much
YOU Love YOUR Airplane!!!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV site (which will be
upgraded aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to
embed a video on another web page is but one of the hundreds
of amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many
months now, to implement in different phases of the initial
release of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy
unaltered Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we
have extensive plans for future functionality, but this
feature allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or
Feature program to embed it on a different web site, though we
must note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those
sites or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper
mission of the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
ANN Is Proud to Present An EXTENSIVE Three Part
Series On The College Park Airport Controversy!, Aero-TV Shows You
How To Build A Glasair Sportsman 2+2 in RECORD TIME, Flies The
Piper Matrix, Hears What's Hot At Blue Mountain Avionics, Gets
Some GREAT Rotax Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has
A FUN Chat With Corkey Fornof, Sees What Happens When AMTs Compete,
Checks Out The Ltest in Life-Raft technologies, Checks Out
More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC 2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical
Aviation Issues, Spills Some Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3
Info, Scores A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH
MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss Them!
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