Aerosport Inc was founded by Harold Woods in Holly Springs, North Carolina in 1971 to market aircraft and plans for home-building. The range included the Quail, Rail, Scamp and the Woody Pusher. In partnership with Rockwell International, the firm also produced an ultralight engine based on a snowmobile engine, the Aerosport-Rockwell LB600. Holly Springs is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971: Events January January 6 - the US Marine Corps takes delivery of its first AV-8 Harriers January 22 - a US Navy P-3 Orion sets a distance record of 7,010 miles (11,282 km) for an aircraft in its... A Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt in 1984 in England Also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, homebuilt aircraft are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. ... Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. ... The Aerosport-Rockwell LB600 was a two-cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled, horizontally-opposed engine intended to power ultralights. ...
References
Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 15.