Jump Start Kit Gets You Out Of The Shop And Into The Air Much
Faster
So, you don't want to pay upwards of
$200,000 for a new aircraft. But you don't want to build the whole
thing yourself either. Now, New Glasair offers a kit that, while
satisfying most of the FAA's checklist for homebuilts, vastly
reduces construction time by as much as 25 to 30 percent.
You Can See What It Is Before You Build It
What New Glasair now sends to a builder clearly has
the shape and look of an aircraft. Between 60 and 70 percent
of the structural airframe is already completed to New Glasair
Factory standards.
In a Jump Start Kit, the fuselage halves as well as the forward
and aft belly panels are all precisely jigged, fitted and seamed
together. Reinforcement laminates at the wing root and stabilizer
areas are completed; wing and stabilizer cutouts are made; canopy
bow and rollover structure laminates are in place; the fuselage
reinforcement rib is fabricated and installed; the firewall is
fabricated and installed and a high-performance COM antenna is
bonded into the vertical fin.
The major structural assembly of the wing is also completed at
the factory. This means that all of the ribs are installed; all
landing gear support rib reinforcement is done; virtually all
control system hardpoints and reinforcement laminates are
installed; all fuel transfer cutouts in the nose ribs are made; the
aft shearweb is installed and the ribs are trimmed for the upper
wing skins.
How Much Time Will You Save?
A Jump Start fuselage for a Glasair III will knock
about 400 hours off the build time and the wing will take another
350 hours of tedious labor away from the builder.
"As it is with the GlaStar Jump Start kits, we have
upgraded the kits for the Glasair III, the Super II-RG and the
Super II-FT to expedite the trip to the flightline, which is where
most builders want to be," said New Glasair President Mikael
Via. "Now, when the crate is opened, it is clearly
recognizable as a Glasair airframe, not a bunch of parts. The
difficult and critical alignment work is done and structural
integrity is maximized."
Price Hike On The Way
New Glasair is raising the prices on its kits on August 15th. By
ordering full kits before the increase, builders can save up to
$6,968 on a Glasair III; $6,295 on a Glasair Super II-RG; $5,245 on
a Glasair Super II-FT; or $3,245 on a
GlaStar.