The Fastest Airplane In Its Class! Lancair IV-P

[@mojogrip]

Lancair IV-P are stupid fast. But these planes also have some of the highest accidents and fatality rates. This is not the plane for a beginner or novice pilot. Must pay close attention to your numbers when flying these birds as they leave little to no room for errors. Follow the owner of this plane at kzbin.info

[@shreddder999]

Are you buying one of each or what?

[@yannismakridis]

This airplane is a dream but the accident numbers should be a warning for GA pilots, flying at this speed on experimental plane you really need to be on your top game.

[@wntu4]

I just read it's almost impossible to get insurance for these.

[@mojogrip]

@@wntu4 they can be expensive to insure yes

[@zutrue]

@@yannismakridis What you say is absolutely true. If you know you don't have what it takes...take your business some place else until you do. As the saying goes...you got to know your Limitation!!!

[@jonathanhuman7333]

Mike, I need to thank you. I’m an Air Force veteran, I’ve loved aviation for years. Unfortunately like so many others, life and family needs prevented me from doing anything about it. I’ve been watching you and other KZbinrs like Mike Patey and Trent Palmer wishing I could share the adventures. Your interview with Kit Darby finally made me stop dreaming and start taking steps to achieving my dreams. I enrolled in Liberty University’s bachelor of aviation program and I’m taking flight lessons through their affiliate partner Lanier Flight center. Thank you again.

[@chasecollins1258]

Thank you for your service.

[@davidkitchner]

Faith in humanity restored! The sharing of knowledge and passions makes the world a better place. Thank you both.

[@superskullmaster]

Crazy times to go for this goal. Hopefully it will work out.

[@mojogrip]

Thank you for your service Jonathan. I'm glad you took a step forward in doing what you love. Blue skies and tailwinds!

[@Jacmac1]

@@superskullmaster I had the same thought, I don't know if there has been a worse time in history to start a career in aviation, however, I would think that it might be a good time for training. There must be a huge number of CFI's looking for work with all of the airline bankruptcies and layoffs.

[@hongshi8251]

Mike, our pleasure as always. Keeping up with these kind of videos and you’ll be famous. And I really got a put a big hand out to the owners of these airplanes. To let you come in and review them is very kind.

[@petediaz9310]

I flew with Lance Neibauer when he still owned the company in a 320 back in 1990 I think, when I was considering buying one. That airplane was a joy to fly; nimble & responsive. His salesman/chief pilot was not available that day so Lance took me up.

[@foesfly3047]

Pete Diaz, that’s a very cool experience to have!

[@motionsic]

Wow, that's one slick airframe. Nothing sticks out to disturb airflow. And interior is sharp, too! Thanks for sharing!

[@extremereclusefallows5779]

I met an older couple at Oshkosh. They built this plane. They finished it in 5 years. It was the same aircraft on the inside; glass panels, pressurized

[@gaFlights]

Hey Mike! You make our plane look good! Great video - thanks for coming out...it was great to meet you. Awesome overview.

[@erikhaw7313]

Beautiful plane!

[@mojogrip]

No doubt! Thank you Gary. And I'll be back to learn how to ride that one wheeler. You've hit me with the bug and now I can't shake it.

[@johnlilley9363]

Beautiful aircraft inside and out. The interior looks incredible

[@damianketcham]

Awesome plane!!! Just gorgeous!!!

[@CK86325]

I actually recently sold a lancair 320 me and my dad where working on because we decided we wanted something a little less experimental and we’re going to have a seller fly a Mooney m20c in next Thursday.

[@antbear13]

Great report! I’ve been interested in Lancairs for years. This is a really nice one.

[@rotaryperfection]

This was the kit plane I originally dreamed of owning the most while I was studying to be an A&P mechanic back in college. Damn the 90's were so long ago.

[@damianketcham]

You didn’t stop dreaming did you????

[@rotaryperfection]

@@damianketcham Nope!

[@PiInTheSky]

Mike, this is a really good video as usual! You've now covered the little brother (the Lancair 320), the big brother (the IV-P), so may I suggest it's time to take on the Legacy? :) I'm partway through a video review of mine, but once our borders open up again you should come visit Canada and we can maybe do some flying in one of the most beautiful - and fast - two-seaters ever designed. Thanks again, and keep up the great work!

[@EdwardSmart]

A plane and a runway right outside your door. Awesome! Nice aircraft.

[@garabato21]

Damn nice plane. Lancair have been on my top 5 favorite planes since I was a kid.

[@navion1946]

Hi there Mr. MojoGrip. I enjoy your videos. When you rate an aircraft in the experimental category you can’t really judge the panel, wood trim, wing tips or details by the model year or manufacturer . The finish and details are entirely in the control of the builder. This is an incredible example of the type. Fly it if you get the chance.

[@carlosaldrete4960]

bro u inspire me to get into a aviation so much man i cant wait to go take my flying lessons to get my private , panthera hybrid is what im thinking about

[@natepate6117]

I think the wood gives it a touch of glass, kind of like a luxury Yacht....interior is top notch

[@bnelson313braveheart]

Sweet sweet plane! Thanks for your review!

[@joegresells2161]

I always get excited for a new Mojo Grip episode!

[@harryshaw4998]

I agree

[@WorivpuqloDMogh]

This man is living the dream. I am getting my light sport license and i have the possibility to do the same as you too so i am gonna grab it.

[@Factory400]

My favorite piston experimental of all time....by far.

[@josephburton92]

That is sicker than idk what

[@jtflypegasus]

Money really is one of the four forces that make the airplane fly!

[@ssoffshore5111]

Dream material right there!

[@markusanderson1517]

The Lancair was the experimental (kit) version ... the Columbia were the certified versions (300/350 normally aspirated, and the 400 turbo). I never flew the Lancair, but I've flown both the 350 and the 400 ..... fantastic airplanes (built like a tank - Utility category, by the way, unlike the Cirrus').

[@rclark0884]

Hello Robert Clark Sales Director of Lancair International. Great Video!, Yep Mojo nailed it. One of the literal "Time Machines" provided by Lancair International. The LIV-P and LIV-PT (trubine) are some of the most sought after aircraft in the market for those who A) respect the flight numbers .. (Airspeed, etc) and B) have the need to get from A to B in just about the shortest time!. Lancair Still supports the Lancair fleet to include the LIV-P (as well as all lancairs). However Lancair dose not produce this platform (LIV) in kit form. Hats off MOJO for the attention to the Lancair aircraft and community. Next trip to Texas please come visit us MOJO!.. KUVA (Uvalde Texas)!

[@stephano.vargas]

I feel like that plane will tip back if someone sits in the backseat 🤣

[@omidn2876]

Nice plane. And nice home with beautiful hanger. Where is place in fla?

[@kenney5454]

Plane Pineapple mentioned S.C.

[@omidn2876]

ALLAN KENNEY thank man.

[@patriotkieler9750]

That interior is beautiful

[@saif.restifer.khomain]

Thanks for the information. Please show cruise of this aircraft at 250 knot.

[@maxstone2566]

Check out the Panthera. I like the look of it and I like the conventional stick. I have learned to us the side joy stick of my SR22 but I would much rather have it in the middle .

[@chrisscharfenberger6007]

My dream plane!! LOVE IT!!

[@thepurpleufo]

Love your videos. Thanks.

[@odbo_One]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos, thank you.

[@JoseMTamez]

Yeah, the Lance is a beautiful airplane. Not sure if I'd pay more than a half a mil when I can spend that kind of money buying a twin or SR22 or both. Keep up the great work man! Awesome videos! I'm learning a great deal.

[@deepbluesea1887]

Hey, my name is Mike, I watch your channel often. I’m in my early 50’s My question is, how long does it take to get pilots license?

[@pbarrick03]

God i wanna fly so freaking bad. Your videos hold me over till I can get my ppl

[@Travel_fulltime]

been watching your channel for about a year now and your videos are awesome bro! I’ve been ur silent fan for a little while and just decided to subscribe today🤙🙌. BeenLearning a lot and can’t wait to by my first plane!!

[@hoosiercrypto9955]

So beautiful. Remember the e350 bigfoot? I want one 🤑

[@mwan200]

How wide are the wings , and what length I thought short wings are needed for high speeds .

[@jannowak9213]

It could be mentioned the pressure recovery. Great invention, decreasing drag, probably first introduced in Lancair 235/320. Nice clips anyway, thank you.

[@ashasveratged7425]

The plane is piece of art.

[@peacefulmelol]

Beautiful airplane

[@jetshine9985]

Very nice plane, exquisitely built as well. I briefly considered building a IV after my first Oshkosh visit in 2008 - Sling Aircraft didn’t exist back then! 250 knots is nice, but I’m sure that IO-550 goes through gas pretty quick. I’ll be happy to follow behind this one in my relatively slow Sling :-)

[@mattgaetz5548]

One great looking airplane!

[@xxxotiknightz]

Never seen you review a Socata TB. Its a plane worth checking out.

[@a3300000]

Beautiful plane.

[@jamesyoung9450]

Check out Cessna’s P 210, look at that main landing gears. And look into Mooney’s retractable steps...

[@ExtremeRecluse]

Production planes don't even begin to compare to advanced experimental planes. When you buy one already built, you usually buy for the cost of materials. The 2000 man hours is free. The craftsmanship is better then production because these planes are built by A-Type pilots who have exquisite attention to detail.

[@Engbader]

love this plane ....... so legend

[@yaadforex2723]

Great video can u look in the velocity aircraft

[@originalbunnaz876]

Great plane, love that “thin”!

[@fly-n-m9445]

Like your videos👍 how does this perform on a grass strip?

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

where is this ?? where people have their house connected to their private hangers like a garage ?? where is this located, and what other places like it are around? how doe this work as far as air traffic control

[@getuliobr1213]

Lindo avião, espetacular. SBSL São Luís Maranhão Brasil

[@foesfly3047]

Do I understand correctly, the Lancair IV(P) is as close as I can get to an EAB Cessna TTX or Columbia?

[@mehmetvural8095]

mehmet vural 9 ay önce have a nice day. lancair 4-p. What are the features of the one with the price of 250,000 dollars?

[@Over50andLearningToFly]

Mike! I WANT THIS PLANE ! But I may have to wait- where was this shot? Spruce Creek? Awesome program!

[@mehmetvural8095]

have a nice day. lancair 4-p. What are the features of the one with the price of 250,000 dollars?

[@06houstonhemi]

Thanks for sharing Mike...

[@toddatstone_city_outlaw8714]

Is this at Spruce Creek?

[@marcs990]

Guys just to give u a BETTER understanding of this aircraft. It can do 335mph, fly at FL290 easily AND set a world speed record of pole to pole plus breaking other speed records as it went along. I think the pilots name was Bill Harrelson. Also a range using the normal fuel tanks “u can install the larger ones if u wish” of 1250 with legal fuel reserves still available. That baggage compartment goes right back as well so u can get 4 ppls luggage in. Th Evolution is the newest version if u want to check it out.

[@donanders2110]

The rear gear folds back just like a 210 Cessna, they might have borrowed them from that plane.

[@planepineapplelife]

I recognize this plane, it’s in my community! Hopefully you also got a chance to check out the Swearingen SX300’s while you were here! Tons of them are based in SC! They are fast, but only a 2 seater. Would have loved to have shown you the 2 my husband and I own. We just swapped engines in one and the other we are still building.

[@kylecRVP]

Where is this air park?? it’s absolutely beautiful here!!!

[@planepineapplelife]

It’s in Florida, near Daytona.

[@coma13794]

@@planepineapplelife I learned about SX300's when visiting SC with a Lancair 360. What an under-rated airplane the SX-300 is. Absolute screamer. Every owner at SC seemed to love theirs.

[@planepineapplelife]

@@coma13794 We absolutely love ours!

[@coma13794]

@@planepineapplelife Outstanding! What do you have up front and what TAS can you hit if you are up high? I ask because I assume it's turbo-charged. What's the O2 situation?

[@NotTelling51]

I have a buddy that owns one of these. Fast airplane.

[@joeyg7458]

sweatin an thinkin and freakin in this thin

[@samurai1-18]

Love you videos, pal!

[@salifuosman9101]

Mike I hope that is quite good reasonable airplane for me but the price , we are going to talk about it.

[@fly4fun24]

Risen LSA do 200 mh at 5G/h is a good option too

[@Intrepid175a]

I realize AC is not a common thing on single engine piston airplanes but then again, neither is pressurization. Wouldn't AC be a requirement on a pressurized aircraft?

[@paulovalerioalves4680]

I would like to know the maintenance, fuel and insurance cost ... Definitely the owner did a excellent job ...

[@T25de]

I know we’re of the same age bcuz you just said Off the chain ! 😅😅 Love your channel

[@extremereclusefallows5779]

What is the price if he decided to sell it? Did he build it or did he buy it from a builder?

[@alexpl812]

Dear Mike, thank you so much for the video! Do you know anything about plans of Lancair to restore IV-P? Because as far as I understand we can not buy IV-P kit any more. Could you also ask the owner what is the real world speed of his plane and other IV-P without heated wings? Because we all heard numbers much higher than 250 kts for this aircraft. Thank you for you work! We very appreciate it!

[@danblumel]

Also no Evolution available now too, the closest is the Mako being made in Texas from the Lancair tooling.

[@northdoha]

@@danblumel Is the Mako safe?? Or like home made aircraft

[@alexpl812]

@@danblumel piston evolution and Mako is considerably slower that IV and the price of piston evolution is much higher than it was for IV-P

[@skyforce2132]

You think you can review a seawind 3000?

[@kalbic]

She's a beauty. I would love to have something like this

[@carlosaircraftmechxnic2819]

Man that aircraft is sexy! So sleek. I believe I’ve worked on one or two of those. If I am not mistaken, there’s one airframe that has a turbine installed.

[@CorbetTrade]

MOJO SIR I WANT TO ASK SOMETHING....... THAT CAN A MECHANICAL ENGINEER MAKE AN ENGINE AT HOME... LIKE THIS PLANE'S ENGINE.... PLS REPLY... SIR.... U R BRAVO🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@specforged5651]

“Looks like a village in there!” “Even a blind man can fly in here” 😂😂 what!? Lol you crack me up. FYI, that color appears to be a buckskin of one shade or another.

[@DoogieFresh]

When you say you’ll talk about the price later, I already know it’s too much for my broke a$$. 😂😂😂

[@danblumel]

Just like the singular and plural for deer is deer not deers, the singular and plural are the same for landing gear, not gears. Gears as in a transmission would be different.

[@EJWash57]

Same can be said about "body frame", whatever that is.

[@scottmcdonald3019]

@@EJWash57 what about "dis", "dat", "dem ?

[@kylebryer1111]

Spruce creek baby

[@kevinbarry71]

I remember this plane from the 1990s. I wonder how many of them actually got built. Not exactly a simple thing to do. There was also a turbo prop version of that aircraft

[@harrisonbritt6681]

360 pressurized 4p kits have been completed as of 2011 or the end of their production, a new company out of Oregon has picked them up RDD it is now called the lx7 with revised wings and other bells and whistles, the lx7-20 is the turbine model that is still being produced.

[@harrisonbritt6681]

Ryan Thomas ya I’ve got a few hours in one she glides like a rock. Everyone says stalls are deadly in these, but I’ve done a few and once you have pitch reversal you just relax the back pressure and add right rudder as you recover, if you keep the ball in the center it is just a normal stall.

[@Ciphertang3t]

Spruce creek!

[@Dbro172]

Awesome plane. probably not a good idea to park it at full throttle and mixture full rich...

[@flynbike]

May be worth noting that bass player Nathan East owned a Lancair IV-P and set a recognized speed record in it. fai.org/record/8272?type=node&id=24426 Just another thing about him I dig along with his playing.

[@harrisonbritt6681]

My favorite airplane

[@tedd7028]

Where is this community? How do I look for houses for sale there?

[@scottoconnor3484]

Our friends, a family of 3, were killed in a IV P crash departing the San Diego area in 2010. No margin of safety in these.

[@mojogrip]

My condolences Scott. You are correct, the accident and fatality rate in these birds are relatively high. Certainly not for the novice pilot. They leave very little room for error indeed.

[@DanFrederiksen]

The lost king. But actually this is a 1 ton plane, using an old relatively crude engine. A pack leading as this is, it can actually be done a lot better still. There is huge potential in GA, just with easy to do existing tech. And in the not so distant future, you have no idea what's coming.

[@mduthie1]

Let’s go flying!

[@BudFunOne]

Why no auto mix?

[@mojogrip]

It’s running a legacy engine and prop

[@BHMPictures]

Nice

[@williamstrome5271]

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[@alirezahaghighat1213]

Thank you Mike for the video, Can you tell me how much for insurance?

[@danblumel]

I can imagine maybe $5,000 or more per year, partly from being retract. Also the lack of availability of spare parts for the future.

[@extremereclusefallows5779]

Where can you get a plane with this performance for the same price. You can't. Why would anybody buy a cert aircraft?

[@roguegaming5329]

100kts? SHEEEESHHH

[@sterlingtardie]

That's a beautiful plane, Mike. Are you aware of Raptor Aircraft? The Raptor is a new kit plane that has just had its first flight into ground effect in the last week or so. It is a beautiful plane that - if Peter can keep the price anywhere near what he hopes - will outclass nearly every other single-engine airplane in overall performance and value on the market. If you're willing, contact Peter and see if he is ready to be interviewed yet. He is currently testing out of KVLD. Please take a look and see what you think of it.

[@alexpl812]

The specs are too suspicious and they have a lot of issues right now. I will newer sit in the raptor

[@sterlingtardie]

Aleksandr Plokhikh , which aircraft never had issues during development? Also, which is the most recent video of the Raptor have you watched?

[@sterlingtardie]

J J, Peter was very close with the numbers for rotation. We will have to wait and see about the other performance numbers, but it is reasonable to expect that he is in the ballpark with the rest. As for price, even at double the price, is there another piston airplane that can come within 70% of its range and fuel economy?

[@sterlingtardie]

Ryan Thomas, please see my reply to J J.

[@alexpl812]

@@sterlingtardie guys from raptor team can not even quantify the cooling capability and stall of fore-wing. Most of GA aircrafts have less than one third of Raptors issues during development stage. And Raptor have not even made its maiden flight. Minimal speed of Raptor is more than 90kts! Look on the performance of their Audi engine! 350 hp at 11gph it means that efficiency of this engine is more than 68%, which does not make any sense even for diesel engine! They made stupid calculation about area rule, which does not have any sense for this aircraft, they just try to attract our attention from the really crucial things like real engine efficiency. Raptor - is one big scam!

[@flexairz]

Airframe, not body frame Speed brakes are also found on gliders.. so that doesn't say much about its cruise speed.. oh, was that IAS, TAS or GS for the 250 kts?

[@scottmcdonald3019]

Come on. Detail and accuracy dont add to the video appeal

[@PiInTheSky]

The IV-P has a VNE of just under 300 KTS, and at altitude, speeds are always given in TAS. In the flight levels, the IV-P should _easily_ do 250KTAS, as the smaller, non-turbo legacy can almost maintain that.

[@extremereclusefallows5779]

I think you should have bought a Glasair 3.

[@PiInTheSky]

Very different aircraft with very different missions.

[@charlesfile4059]

Looks nice for an experienced smaller pilot with a lot of cash for fuel huh??