I was at Montgomery field the other day when a couple of canards did a
low pass at very high speed then eventually parked right next to my plane.

A large group of geek and business types came out and started gawking
at the planes, where I now recognized as Berkuts. (actually, they were
calling one by a different name, but it was the same plane).  Both
planes had been modified with the rear seat turned into a cargo bay.  I
tried to listen into the presentation, but they shooed me away.  All I
could get was that one of the planes was built at the "factory" from the
new tooling and was the "production prototype".

I was told that the new prices are now way out of range of the homebuilder.

--
David Leonard

Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
http://N4VY.RotaryRoster.net
http://RotaryRoster.net

Sounds like there going after the UAV market.

Clifton


    A question not far off the subject;  I was in Ft Lauderdale the first
week of April and heard a plane climbing out of the local airport. Naturally
I looked up to see what looked like a longEZ but it had twin pushers, one on
each wing. Does anyone know what it might be?

Tom/norpro

Either a Beach Star ship or a Piaggio Avanti.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Beech+Starship&um=1&ie=UTF-8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Avanti
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.



Looking at the pictures it was definitely the Beach Star Ship. Thanks.

Tom/norpro

Didn't they wreck the star ship fleet.
Clifton

Not all of them. There are one or two still out there.