Saturday, 7 June 1997 Jay Hanig wrote to Elvis Hargrove
 EH>> Sounds like a scary airplane though. Inadequate control
 EH>> authority is the only way *I* know to get one to act like that.
 I think it's a deliberate design -- the slats run out forward at low
 speed and create a "slot".   It's extremely docile, cleared for all
 the aerobatics you can make it do (not many, I suspect) and S-L-O-W
 (like, cruise is 75mph -- 71 knots).
 JH> Spiffy looking airplane, though. I always wanted to fly one of
 JH> the retractable versions (Trinidad?).
 That's the TB series -- the grandsons of the Rallye.   They ARE very
 sexy looking, but they haven't been around all that long and are a
 bit of an unknown factor.   There's a TB20 (Trinidad, retractable)
 on the airfield here.   The owner's been trying to sell shares in it
 for three years, but no takers.  Looks gorgeous, got all the latest
 avionics etc, but he paid GBP 75,000 ($120k) for it and wants the
 shareholders to pay their share of that.
 I didn't have the cheek to ask for a test flight, knowing I was
 planning to join the Arrow group (at half the share price, and lower
 monthly and hourly costs).
 Greetings from Keith Jillings (2:257/71.10)
.!. The future is like the present, only longer.
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