When 300km/hour is not enough, there are some ideas to create jet-powered aircraft using Shark design, so You could fly 400-500 km/hour according to used engine.
Price-induction jet looks nice for that purposes : At Take Off Power, you can get up to 255daN, consuming 80kg/h of fuel for the DGEN 380 and 330daN with 100kg/h fuel consumption for the DGEN 390.
According to last information about dialogues of Canadian Skyboy owners with Interplane owner Ralph Mandarino, Skyboy can be revived again in Canada - read Gilles Mercier's info , published in
Yahoo Interplane Skyboy group
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Shark system of undercarriage - using hydraulic brakes and wheels from BERINGER, all wheels equipped with shock-absorbers and retracting by electromechanical actuator.
There is very nice to see written "MODERN MARVELS" on the Shark 3D drawing - used as illustration of LSA future progress by Dan Johnson's talk about LSA at Sport Aviation Expo after-party.
At Sebring You could find new USA dealer of MD3 Rider - Space Coast Aviation Services, Inc. Their web pages invites "to visit us at Sun'n Fun to see the MD3 Rider in Person" (April 8-13 2008 at Lakeland, Florida)