New Extra 300-SHP

[Sandbag Special]

Anyonw seen this new aircraft from Extra Aircraft!?!? I just saw Goulian flying the 1st one at Red Bull Berlin and it looks awesome, 150lbs lighter than the 300s and uses a 350hp engine!!!

More here... http://www.extraaircraft.com/oshkosh/oshkosh.htm

Matt

[robsotelo]

DAYYYYUUUMMMMM!!!!

[SleepyC]

its like a 260 meeds an edge.. meets ...
MUST HAVE ONE!!!!

[50%plane]

Looks pretty sweet!

[Matt Chapman]

This IS one sweet airplane. I huge improvment (hence Goulian getting one and out of the 232) over the original Exrtra 300-S.
Extra put this plane on a diet. Lost all of the frilly stuff like electric adjustable rudder peddels. Lots of carbon fiber usd in place of heavy aluminum. The molded fuse sides and turtle dck are feather lite! Almost like the same as a Comp-ARF fuse. The new cowles at Extra are vey nice as well. Much sleeker looking. The big change is the tail. If you look, it's much, much thinner than the other Extras. It was based on the CAP tail due to the great tummbling ability of the CAP's. The frame is a basic 300-S frame however. The wing is also the same, so roll rate is no better than the other 300's and 300-L's. They need to improve that, but hear that things are in the works already. His engine dyno'ed out at 354 hp, (mine at 357!! HA HA!! ) THe thing is a rocket ship. Just keeps going and going. Will do better at RedBull than the CAP and regular 300-S, but still don't look for it in the winners circle anytime soon. The Edge is still king there.
Sorry to drone on, but thought some of you might enjoy some of the skinny.

mc

[GremlinX]

Mr. Chapman, why is the Edge so strong against this new stuff? Very good looking plane though, love the new cowl.

[Rolling Thunder]

Jeff Boerboon AVAC.jpg
Here are a couple of pics of the L version that Jeff Boerboon (team USA) is flying at the Advanced World Championships in Poland. After day 1 Jeff is in 5rd place. Jeff Boerboon AVAC2.jpg
This is a brand new plane rented from Extra in Germany.

[50%plane]

Thanks for the skinny Matt!

[GremlinX]

The shoulder wings look so much more serious.... Like its a real aerobatic.

[Anna Wood]

We have a bunch of pictures of Mike Goulian's new plane from the Red Bull Air Race in Berlin on our website at www.acrodesigns.com.

The Edge's are still lighter, faster and have a higher roll rate then Mike's new Extra. Just inherent to the fundamental designs of both airplanes. The new Extra Mike has is very nice and should pick up more speed as the engine gets broken in and Mike gets more comfortable in the plane and experience in racing over the courses.

The upcoming races should get very interesting with the British pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones both flying Edges now. Paul Bonhomme now owns Mike Mangold's Dragon Edge. Mike Mangold flew his brand new Edge for the first time in Istanbul. Paul Bonhomme took a second place finish in Istanbul with his Edge. Steve Jones has purchased Kirby Chambliss' yellow Edge and should be flying it in Budapest. Both Paul and Steve will be in the mix now with their new rides.

Along with Mike Mangold's new Edge, both Kirby Chambliss and Peter Besenyei will be flying brand new Edges, hopefully in the San Francisco race.

It will be fun to watch how the rest of the season unfolds.

Regards,

Anna Wood
Queen Creek, AZ

[KrisW]

	Quote: Originally Posted by GremlinX
	The shoulder wings look so much more serious.... Like its a real aerobatic.

The Extra 300 series are still low wing aircraft, Gremlin. Only the original 300 2-seater was a midwing.

[Matt Chapman]

not to mention the Extra 260 mid-wing.... and the Extra 230....