The Glasair and GlaStar

Friday, June 01, 2012

How the Glasair and the GlaStar changed the world of composite homebuilts.

Glasair — Glasair I as a tricycle.

Glasair — Glasair I as a taildragger.

Tom Hamilton, Inventor of the Glasair — Tom Hamilton holding court at OshKosh ‘94, the year he introduced the GlaStar.

Glasair — The Glasair IIS in its tricycle configuration.

Glasair — The Glasair III, which actually preceded the IIS…the III is for 300 mph and 300 hp.

Glasair — The Glasair IIS in retractable format….near Mount Baker in Washington.

Glastar — The GlaStar…it outsold each model of the Glasair series, but not the series total.

Glastar — The GlaStar on floats….an ideal floatplane.

Glastar — GlaStar on final approach.

Glasair — Glasair 1 RG

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