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Design and development

Designer Dick Eaves used his experience building a

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, Skyhopper II,

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to develop a new two seat tandem homebuilt design. The aircraft uses an all-aluminum construction with fiberglass nose cowling. The tail surfaces and spar extrusion are modeled after a Mustang II.

Operational history

A Nexus Mustang won first place in the Plans built Category at

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in 2004 and Bronze Lindy at

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2004.

Specifications (Nexus Mustang)

References

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