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Klyde Ponders What Life Will Be Like After The A380...

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Ground Clutter A pattern produced on the radar scope by ground returns which may degrade other radar returns in the affected area. The effect of ground clutter is minimized by the use of moving target indicator (MTI) circuits in the radar equipment resulting in a radar presentation which displays only targets which are in motion.

"A brief history of how this design came about… a friend of design engineer Bob Barrows requested he create a larger version of the Bearhawk 4-Place as this friend is a big guy. Bob did the drawings for his friend who began construction on it. However, health issues forced him to quit working on the project and it sat for about a year. One day I was talking to Collin Campbell who told me he was getting bored now that his Bearhawk LSA was finished and flying... Truly, there is no one in the world, except Bob himself, more qualified to have built this prototype than Collin."  Source: Mark Goldberg, president of Avipro / Bearhawk Aircraft -- who manufactures Quick Build kits of the Bearhawk models. Mark has been eager to