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Old 18th October 2001 | 23:30
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Bit off the subject but I'd have to quibble about the Firefly, BEags old fruit. An EFT aircraft is all it pretends to be in its present role and, while it doesn't have the roll rate of an Extra 300 it's good enough for basic aeros. And what other machine can fly a full procedural ILS (in IMC), overshoot and climb to FL100 in less than 10 mins (while keeping your tootsies warm with its cockpit heater), spin down, fly an intermediate aerobatic sequence including outside loop and still be home in time for tea and kippers? And it's British built to boot. I've seen worse.
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