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The Acro Sport offers performance and excellent aerobatic capability in the Sportsman and intermediate categories. Purposely uncomplicated and straight forward. It has a wide landing gear which provides superb ground handling and relatively easy landing qualities.
This AcroSport started with a Lycoming 0-320 of 150hp but this one has been built with high compression pistons and new cylinders, crossover SS exhaust system, Ellison throttle body injector, light weight starter & alternator, inverted oil system and it is estimated to produce 175+ hp.
The AcroSport features a steel tube fuselage, spruce wing and overall fabric covering. Maximum speed for this biplane is 180 mph, it cruises at 125 and stalls at 65. It has a rate of climb of 2,000 ft/min and a range of 350 miles.
"Poberezny and crew certainly gained their objective of adequate cockpit room. It's wide, it's long, and it's deep. I'd be willing to bet that the airframe would accept somebody up to around 6'5" or more. There's plenty of legroom, and headroom is naturally unlimited."
The Acro Sport One is actually an aerobatic derivative of Paul Poberezny's EAA biplane and shares that airplane's ease of construction and handling. Larger than most single place biplanes, it is Citabria-simple on the runway and can be handled by most low-time tailwheel pilots. With its Hershey bar wings, its construction is absolutely traditional and simple. The fuselage also exhibits a lot of thought given.
"What the AcroSport represents is exactly what the EAA wanted: It is an acrobatic airplane with almost-Pitts performance and better-than-Pitts manÂners."
