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Old 11-18-2013, 05:28 AM
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Have no idea what "the stick" and "MMAC" mean, but that was a great Bill Lear design. He was pushing it for certification when he died. The issue was the gear box having so much complexity or stress, it was troublesome if workable. There is no doubt this airplane would have been completed if he had not died and it shows how fascinated Lear was with aircraft design. This aircraft came during the golden age of general aviation when designing new GA was considered "the" thing to do. They were right in that some aircraft, mostly light jets, ended up being very lucrative. Props not so much, but Cessna had tons of novel designs as well (see the slides I posted below in ten individual threads), and Beechcraft ended up making the Starship a few years later. I believe Linden Blue was on the panel of this airplane's management, same guy who later made the Starship and more recently pushed for a bizjet called the Spectrum that has yet to mature using Honda turbines, and is currently on the board at Icon aircraft.

Cessna Aircraft Company Experimental Aircraft

• See also Cessna Experimental Aircraft Parts 2-10.
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