Icarus Safire II Gen

[Staso 0]

Hey,
Does anyone have any information on when Icarus Safire II Gen with
redesinged brakes supposed to come out ?
Stan,
C-XxXXX

[Jimbo 0]

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Does anyone have any information on when Icarus Safire II Gen with
redesinged brakes supposed to come out ?

When I spoke with the Icarus reps about this they wouldn't give me a firm date, but did say it would be towards the end of the year. You could probably call them and get a more definite answer.

[Zennie 0]

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but did say it would be towards the end of the year

Interesting. I would have thought they'd want to release it as close as possible to the Sabre2 to avoid being one-upped.
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Blue Skies!
Zennie

[ramon 0]

PD owes Icarus a one up.
(FX, VX, crossfire...ha ha ha)
C-ya zennie
ramon

[Swanee 0]

Does anyone know if it is a totally new canopy, or something that can also be retrofitted to earlier Safires?

[Staso 0]

It supposed to have redesigned steering lines to get rid of tricky Safire landings ...
Stan.
C-XxXXX

[mattb 0]

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Does anyone know if it is a totally new canopy, or something that can also be retrofitted to earlier Safires?

From what I heard originally it was a plan to retrofit earlier Safires and modify new Safires with different brake lines but it changed to a new canopy design and may not be retrofitted to earlier Safires. Just gossip though.
-mob

[Geoff 0]

That's basically the story I got from Simon Mundell at Icarus. There'll be more than new brake lines on the Gen II Safire. Slightly better than gossip, but the manufacturers do have a tendency to keep changing their minds. Nothing's certain until it's released.
Geoff