A Couple More Spanning the Years at Ardmore

It was a fabulous weather day last Tuesday when I called into Ardmore to have a look at what was at Avspecs.  It was also very quiet flying wise however I did manage to photo a couple of planes that were out in the sun:

The lovely Ryan ST-3KR (is it a PT 22?) ZK-RYN was out sparkling in the sun by the Warbirds hangar so I thought I would be a bit arty and take the photo into the sun as it sparkled off the aircraft.  It is painted in US Army colours from 1942.  Nice!

Then down at the Avspecs end, David Cranna taxied out in his also spectacular Extra Flugzeugbau GmbH EA 300/LC ZK-XLX (the C stands for Carbon Fibre).  This was the first time I had seen this aircraft so I was pretty pleased to photograph it.  

Later it occurred to me that both the Ryan and the Extra are low wing tandem taildraggers but they are worlds apart in their construction and performance.