Yeah, tail draggers are the preferred configuration for short,
back-country strips, but 182s, with their additional horsepower, are no
slouch, either.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 9/15/2015 9:31 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
I spoke with the pilot of this pretty Cessna yesterday, because we have
a mutual friend. But I didn't really look closely at the airplane until
he was taxiing away to go home. I snapped a photo to get the
registration number, thinking all along that it was a Cessna 180.
Lo and behold, when I ran the registration, I found it to be a 1956
Cessna 172. Apparently, at some point in its life, it was converted to
conventional gear. It makes a very pretty configuration, quite
different from the conventional Cessna 170 with its rounded rudder.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/1956+Cessna.tif.html
Many years ago I took a rafting trip down the Middle Fork and main stem
of the Salmon River. The backcountry settlements and ranches along the way had
short airfields, and there were invariably Cessna 170s, 180s, and 182s
everywhere. Pretty durable aircraft.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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