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Just stumbled across this forum and was thrilled to see there is still building
going on with the Acrosport. Started my
Acrosport II (serial number 18) on August 28, 1979 and did the first flight on
June 2, 1991. Just thought I'd throw that in to date all you young pups.



I did take a break from building and built one of John
Monnett's Monerai sailplanes. Of course
that, as well as getting my glider rating
and flying the Monerai for a couple of years took a big chunk out of the 11
year gestation of the Acrosport.



Coming up on 20 years and close to a thousand hours in
N8185A. Many, many small changes over the years. Built and tried 4 instrument
panels, 3 tail-wheels (go with the Aviation Products - by far the best) 4 canopy
configurations and 5 exhaust systems.

I did teach myself to fly tail wheel in this plane. Not the
wisest thing - but . . .



Rebuilt a damaged single place Acrosport for a friend and
test flew it. Surprised at how light and nimble it felt compared to mine. Of
course, it had a new engine which was probably putting out 30 more horses than
my tired old O-320. If I had it to do over, I'd build the Acrosport II as a
single place and recline the seat a bit
- move the pedals forward, etc. Like everyone else - an hour is about all I
want in it.



All you builders - keep on plugging it's well worth the
effort.

20110215_170441_Acro-1.jpg




Bill Rigginwww.monerai.wordpress.com







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