Plane and Pilot, November 1st, 2004
Roy LoPresti's vision of a fast, fun airplane is close to completion
Every once in a while, I'm privileged to fly an airplane that stands out from the pack. While most generalaviation designs are safe, comfortable machines, few are exciting airplanes intended to do more than transport their pilots from Miami to New Orleans, or Chicago to Dallas.
Certainly, one airplane in the latter category is the LoPresti Fury. Roy LoPresti licensed the right to modify and produce the airplane from the Swift Association in 1985. A year later, Roy began working his magic on the postwar Swift.
Two years lat...
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