Samson Mite

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Slick Goodlin
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This little thing is every kind of perfect:


It’s a one-off designed and built by Steve Wolf, a man famous for making what I hear are very clever Pitts Special wings, as well as being a major contributor to the build of Delmar Benjamin’s Gee Bee and Jim Wright’s Hughes H-1. The guy knows what he’s doing and his work is just gorgeous. And yes, it’s a scaled down Pitts Samson but there’s a lot more going on here than just, “Make the same plane but make every piece a little smaller.”

And the sound of that little Verner radial is just...
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dam me want one !
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What a rush to see someone actually start a round engine properly. For all you pups out there, old guys still can have the hands and feet. :P
"black air has no lift - extra fuel has no weight"
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