REFLECTOR: Rocket Racing League on Discovery channel tonite

[Dave Philipsen]

I saw the ICON displayed at the Reno air races last week and although 
the styling is sleek the instrument panel didn't impress me one bit.  It 
looks just like a car and would be hard to get used to.   Maybe ok for a 
sport pilot who is just getting started.


Jeff Barnes wrote:
> It was 9pm cst, and it was cool. Some segments way better than others. 
>  
> Bad segment is the ICON guy trying to sell to people because cockpit 
> looks like a car layout so it's easy to fly, and what great fun to fly 
> with your buddies low to the ground with the windows open, in a closed 
> canopy airplane, that goes 120 mph for 300 miles !
>  
> I didn't know the Viper was at a $400k price point - wonder what Renee 
> will say about that.
>  
> Flying manta ray and jellyfish pretty cool.
>  
> Great explosion from the RRL.
>  
> --Jeff
>  
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 9/19/08, Andy Millin /<amillin at sbcglobal.net>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Andy Millin <amillin at sbcglobal.net>
>     Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rocket Racing League on Discovery channel
>     tonite
>     To: "'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'"
>     <reflector at tvbf.org>
>     Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 9:46 PM
>
>     Ping received.  RRL on Discovery, I can't (yawn) wait....
>      
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         *From:* reflector-bounces at tvbf.org
>         [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Barnes
>         *Sent:* Friday, September 19, 2008 9:24 PM
>         *To:* Velocity Reflector
>         *Subject:* REFLECTOR: Rocket Racing League on Discovery
>         channel tonite
>
>         Hi folks,
>          
>                 Grainger sent an email saying RRL is on DSC tonite
>         10pm - I didn't see what time zone.
>          
>                 Then I thought, must be a lot of Reflector traffic on
>         this, looked at my email, and see NO reflector traffic for a
>         while.  So this message is also a comm-check.
>          
>                 www.tvbf.org <http://www.tvbf.org/> is up.
>          
>         Regards,
>          
>         Jeff Barnes
>
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Dave Philipsen
Velocity STD-FG
N83DP