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July 11, 2022

ScaleBirds P-36 Radial-Engined Replica Is Flying

Exquisite Single Seater is Powered by Seven Cylinder Verner Radial Engine

ScaleBirds Honcho, Sam Watrous, has confirmed that their P-36 replica has now flown a number of times and outside of the usual teething pains (baffling, cooling, yada yada), the P-36 looks to have a very bright future. Overall controllability appears promising and the ground handling also appears to be on target. Instrumentation was a little off, so performance numbers are not yet available. The first flights were conducted by a respected member of the test flying community, Eliot Seguin, noting that “...you have a great little airplane here!”

Van's Offers A Quick Peek At The Bird That Got Everyone Excited At OSH21

Well... its real and it's flying. Despite a lack of detailed info, we now know that Van's Aircraft is flying the engineering protype of the RV-15, their first high-wing bird, announced at Oshkosh last year. Over the weekend, Van's popped a very short video of a test flight of the bird on YouTube and set the sport aviation community on fire within minutes. The video shows N7357, registered just last May as an 'RV-8X' conducting a pretty short takeoff followed by nearly a minute of inflight beauty shots.