A System of Safety

What are the safest light aircraft available? Arguably, the Glasair Glastar/Sportsman family. A recent Kitplanes article included a chart illustrating light aircraft accident fatalities vs. cruise speed. The Sportsman (and the Sportsman predecessor, Glastar) tracks well below the trendline. Our airplane’s uniquely broad speed multiple of 3.6x (low stall speed to high cruise speed) is […]

Tomcat Pilot Flies Sportsman

Former Tomcat pilot, Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass, now flies a brand new Sportsman.  https://youtu.be/batKbDkzbeg

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings

Pilots know that an aircraft’s paint job has almost nothing to do with how it flies — that’s the objective, fact-based side of our brain at work. Really though, an attractive and well-executed paint job has everything to do with how we, and others, perceive an aircraft. Simply put, paint is important. Very important. And […]