{"id":1635,"date":"2013-04-27T00:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2013-08-20T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:00:35","slug":"aerobatic-aircraft-at-maxcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/aerobatic-aircraft-at-maxcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerobatic Aircraft at Maxcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What&#8217;s in our hangar?<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1637\" title=\"photo 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-1-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-1-1024x521.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An aerobatic aircraft &#8211; the MX2.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a guys dream aircraft. Or at least it seems to be as a lot of our employees ooh&#8217;ed and ah&#8217;d at this aircraft when it came into our hangar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5em;\">What is it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a sporty two seater, amateur built aircraft, made of carbon fibre. It offers great performance, agility and ruggedness for aerobatic competitions and air shows. \u00a0The MX2 has a cruise speed \u00a0in excess of 200 knots, top speed of 300 MPH and has a roll rate of 500 degrees per second. \u00a0Also designed for plus or minus 16G&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<h3>Who does it belong to?<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Super Dave\" href=\"http:\/\/superdaveairshows.com\/dave-mathieson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Mathieson<\/a>, better known as \u201cSuper Dave\u201d in the airshow community, currently flies this world\u2019s most advanced aerobatic aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1638\" title=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-2-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-2-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-2-1024x372.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"u488-6\">Did you see the chicken?<\/h3>\n<p>Most pilots have a red tag off the pitot static, this one, has a chicken. Very imaginative!<\/p>\n<h3>What did we do?<\/h3>\n<p>Dave needed his sponsored Grand Rapids EFIS display installed with just a few days notice. \u00a0Four of our technicians worked late into a few nights and on Friday night Super Dave roared off for his first airshow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MX2-with-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1644\" title=\"MX2 with logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MX2-with-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave is in so many airshows and aerobatic competitions, \u00a0 he \u00a0has many decals of sponsors on the aircraft. \u00a0One of them, us!<\/p>\n<p>A month later, flying the RV-4, Harmon Rocket is Mark Miller. \u00a0He brought in his beautiful aircraft for some work including installing a GTR 225 VHF Comm Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of these two in action on the Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2193 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 18px;\" title=\"Picture 005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-005-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Embedded with Mark Miller &#8211; Ultimate Aerobatics<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watch.discoverychannel.ca\/clip805045#clip805045\">http:\/\/watch.discoverychannel.ca\/clip805045#clip805045<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2194 alignnone\" title=\"Picture 006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Picture-006-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxcraft Avionics<\/a>\u00a0is a leader in airplane and helicopter avionic system upgrades like the Garmin GTN series, including installation of everything from a basic VHF Radio and simple Garmin portable GPS all the way to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maxcraft.ca\/index.php\/product-lines\">TCAS, EFIS, and autopilot systems<\/a>. We have the largest avionics facility\u00a0in Canada and we have over 20,000 unique part numbers in our in inventory to repair your aircraft or upgrade your cockpit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in our hangar? An aerobatic aircraft &#8211; the MX2. It&#8217;s a guys dream aircraft. Or at least it seems to be as a lot of our employees ooh&#8217;ed and ah&#8217;d at this aircraft when it came into our hangar. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/aerobatic-aircraft-at-maxcraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[281,283,37,280,282],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-greatest-avionics","tag-dave-mathieson","tag-discovery-channel","tag-efis","tag-mx2","tag-super-dave"],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxcraft.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}