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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:43:03 -0800
From: Don Walker <drwalker@gbis.com>
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Subject: Bear hawk dream airplane
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Dustin,
My hanger landlord, a 20,000 hour ATP finished building a Bearhawk with 
an 0-540 in it.  He's a serial builder and it's a 10.5 out of 10.  
According to him, the design has several serious flaws.  He put it on 
it's back in a moderate crosswind.  Cost him 30 grand.  After checking 
out the problem he found:  The landing gear from the factory are not 
straight.  He modified and straightened them.  It needs Much more engine 
offset.  The tail is much too small.  Factory support leaves much to be 
desired and design deficiency problems are left to be worked out by the 
builders.  The company may be in financial trouble.  I have flown it in 
once with him since all the rework.  Nice solid airplane and not as 
heavy on the controls as many.  I watched his landing on a no wind day 
and he worked very hard with a lot of fast stick and rudder work.  He 
still won't fly it with moderate cross winds.  There is a Bearhawk 
builders group on Yahoo.  Suggest you spend a lot of time reading over 
the postings.  Just a heads up.

Don Walker
RV-8 Renesis
Flying and modifying