A new experimental airplane, the two-tandem-seat Thatcher CX5, has taken its maiden flight. Glen Bradley, who helped build and design the airplane together with the main designer, Dave Thatcher, was at the controls when the CX5 took off from the Jack Edwards Airport near Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Bradley used one word to describe the visibility, the handling of the airplane and the operation of the engine — “Great!” He added after the flight, “All of us know that Dave hit a homerun with the CX4, and I told him today he has now hit two clean out of the park.”
