Whisper Aircraft

Hi Ollie, Sorry to hear you are doing the waiting thing again. I visited Stuart at Paradise Beach a couple of weeks back, and saw some of the great new ideas and possible modifications - very tempting but I'm enjoying EYU too much to have her sitting in a workshop! Almost 60 hours now clocked up wit...

Thanks, Russell. I've just spent the morning flying EYU with Jean near George, and what an amazing experience. There are some really small tweaks to be made, but otherwise it looks fantastic and is fantastic! Les took some photos, so hopefully I'll have these to post soon.

Just had a call from Jean, and ZU-EYU flew for the first time today - beautifully! There are a few small things which inevitably need ironing out, but Jean is hoping to get the plane across to Plett on one of the proving flights in the next couple of days so I can get a first real taste of my new Wh...

I'm keen if EYU ever gets finished .... but there is a very strong possibility of me taking delivery next week!

Hi Ollie, this is great news! Hopefully when yours is cleared out they can focus more on mine . I spoke to Paul yesterday and he is still hoping to get EYU done for Xmas. Is the cooling issue sorted out?

Cheers
Andrew

Latest update from Les, EYU's panel is in and lot's more happening to finally get the aircraft finally out of their factory. Hopefully a nice big present on its way to me for Xmas!

It's looking magnificent, John! I'm passing through George airport later today, so I'll go check it out properly and hopefully see some good progress on ZU-EYU too.

Any idea when the CAA will give the OK for the flight tests to start?

ZU-EYU is the 3rd of the 3 Whispers currently on the Shadowlite production line, and in anticipation of it being delivered in the next few weeks (???), Johan Dries and I flew from Plett to Paradise yesterday in Johan’s Tiger Moth, for Johan’s conversion onto the Whisper with Russell (I have the huge...