WIX Archives

Griffon Mustang Race 38 ....

Posted by Richard Allnutt on Wed Apr 14, 2004 03:46:29 PM

In reply top Pictures please! posted by Joe scheil on Wed Apr 14, 2004 01:26:24 PM

....broke up in flight and crashed taking the life of its pilot, Gary Levitz, during the 1999 Reno Air Races.... so that leaves only three contra-prop griffon aircraft flying out there. However, John Marlin's MB-5 replica has a Griffon (58?) with contra-props, and this is scheduled to fly sometime soon.

Richard

: Interestingly there are only a couple of contraprop Griffo
: n Aircraft that fly...
:
: The ones I know of are all stateside...
:
: Shack WR960 in Texas, Griffon Mustang Race 38', Spitfire X
: IX PS890 in Chino and now a Seafire 47...
:
: Other than that contraprops are rare anyway, just the Gann
: et and ...?

Follow Ups: