Watch the Amazing Aerocomp Airplanes in Action: New Video Available

Volume 3 Issue 2

ONLINE EDITION

Summer 1999

See Aerocomp’s Amazing Airplanes in Action

Rotor/Wing Sports TV (of Macon, GA) recently invested several days filming at Aerocomp, Inc.’s Merritt Island, Florida facilities. Host Dan Leslie and his crew of professional filmmakers put together a couple 1/2-hour television shows featuring both Aerocomp, Inc. and Skybuild. Aerocomp, Inc. manufactures the Comp Air family of kit-built airplanes and Skybuild is a builder assistance center dedicated to helping Comp Air owners complete their airplanes in a safe and timely manner.

The 1/2 hour TV segments are part of Rotor/Wing Sports TV’s aviation series, broadcast weekly in the US on the Outdoor Channel.

"The only way to learn more
about these airplanes is to visit the factory and fly one."
Demo flights and factory tours are available most days
(during normal business hours) at Aerocomp, Inc.’s
Merritt Island, Florida airport facilities.
Visitors are welcome.

1) SKYBUILD BUILDERS CENTER
The first show (#11 in the series) consists of a tour of the Skybuild Builders Center facilities, and interviews with Comp Air builders and with Skybuild’s president, Mr. Steve Darrow. The show focuses on Skybuild’s unique educational program for Comp Air kit builders, shows aircraft under various stages of construction, and describes how Skybuild can enable a builder to complete the major structural fiberglass portion of his project in only 12 to 20 days. Skybuild’s program helps speed along the initial assembly of the wings, fuselage, landing gear, empennage, and control surfaces, and helps to ensure that primary structural components are correctly assembled.

2) AIR-to-AIR FLYING FOOTAGE
The second show (#12 in the series) features some great air-to-air video footage of the Comp Air 6, Comp Air 7, Comp Air 8, and Comp Air 10 flying over Florida’s popular Cocoa Beach (a few miles south of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral). Numerous takeoffs and landings, high speed passes, slow flight, climbs, descents, and cruise flight are shown. The 1/2 hour show provides a lot of details about these airplanes, including interior close-ups, startup and taxiing scenes, ground handling, interviews with company personnel and builder/pilot interviews. (Available online as streaming video - requires high-speed internet connection).

Excerpts from these professionally produced TV shows constitute the Video portion Aerocomp’s $25 literature and video "Information Package" (secure server available for online orders).