Re: Sonex High Wing!
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:31 pm
Stu AI7AN wrote:This High Wing design looks like a home run! Was strongly considering acquiring a Sonex kit within the next 12 months, but will I now decide to wait? Tempting, because I REALLY prefer high wing, particularly when it has a green house window above. I may not be quite that patient, but it remains tempting.
My PLEA to Sonex would be to make weight allowance for the Corvair power plant. I would still likely respectfully pursue it regardless in whatever version I wind up with, but this would be the perfect opportunity to incorporate the ability to do so with factory blessing. For my preferences this High Wing would seem to be as close to experimental perfection as could possibly be achieved.
Stu (N. Central Idaho)
Based on my conversation with Mark, I wouldn't hold your breath on a factory approved installation of the Corvair engine in this variant or smaller Sonex aircraft. In the future, who knows? I certainly don't.
That being said, others have done it, and you'll have to do your own research and development on that with the High Wing. My opinion (worth WAY less than $0.02) is that it would be an even better platform for one. (This coming from someone who may have some Corvair engine parts in the hangar right now... Honestly have no idea what I'd do with them yet.)