FLS Sprint
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**FLS Sprint***
Just curious about this little British single.
Saw them at a rally a few years back, Cranfield or North Weald. One completed the others in stages. Being offered by FLS of EGHH.
So who originally designed them and what has happened since. Looking on G-Info I notice the airframes are now registered to Aces High Ltd.
What does the future (if any) hold for the type. Is it another British plane going nowhere ?
Sad really they look very well built and a nifty little 2 seater.
edited for spelling (twice)
Saw them at a rally a few years back, Cranfield or North Weald. One completed the others in stages. Being offered by FLS of EGHH.
So who originally designed them and what has happened since. Looking on G-Info I notice the airframes are now registered to Aces High Ltd.
What does the future (if any) hold for the type. Is it another British plane going nowhere ?
Sad really they look very well built and a nifty little 2 seater.
edited for spelling (twice)
Last edited by Oscar Duece; 26th June 2002 at 15:06.
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From: Ireland
They are the SAH-1. You would have seen them at Aerofair at North Weald. They used to wheel them out every year. If they are still registered to Aces High then they are probably still at North Weald. You can always fly in and ask or call Alan or Keith at the Squadron, they are very helpful.
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I did the airtest on the (only?) one still going last year. Not bad at all but the man to ask is Mr Farley (often known in these parts, I think he may have evaluated the aircraft for HMGov't).
I thought that the aircraft was classically British - Good control harmony - 'standard' spinning characteristics and woefully overbuilt in places and terribly thought out in others. I feel that its lack of success was down to it not being a giant leap on from the Bulldog (the slot that it was touted to fill).
All airframes and jigs are in the Aces High hangar at NW along with lumps of Opticas. Poor old british aviation - so near and yet so horribly underfunded/developed.
I thought that the aircraft was classically British - Good control harmony - 'standard' spinning characteristics and woefully overbuilt in places and terribly thought out in others. I feel that its lack of success was down to it not being a giant leap on from the Bulldog (the slot that it was touted to fill).
All airframes and jigs are in the Aces High hangar at NW along with lumps of Opticas. Poor old british aviation - so near and yet so horribly underfunded/developed.
