__NOTOC__ The Holcomb Perigee was a prototype sportsplane built in the United States in

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by Jerry Holcomb. Originally known as the Ultra-IMP, it was a refinement of the

Aerocar Micro-IMP __NOTOC__ The Aerocar Micro-IMP was a light sportsplane developed from the successful Mini-IMP homebuilt. Designed by Moulton Taylor and Jerry Holcomb in 1978, it was finished in 1981 and demonstrated at Oshkosh the following year. A unique fe ...

and attempted to overcome the major shortcoming of that design - a lack of power - by replacing the adapted automobile engine that had been used in its predecessor with an engine designed to power ultralights.

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