"gwengler" wrote in message
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All in all, I think the airplane was an Edsel for Cessna and a
misadventure
to say the least

I don't know why you are saying this. How many Edsels were build and
sold by Ford? Compare that with the many hundreds of Skymasters that
were build and sold.

I do remember someone tacking on a
turbo on the 337 that attracted a few buyers, not nothing to write home
about.

There are hundres of Skymasters with Turbos both pressurized and
non-pressurized (P337).

Gerd (ex Skymaster owner)

Although there are obviously some Skymasters out here, I believe this will
pass in context as a fairly good analogy.
The 336/337 program in no way whatsoever fulfulled the market share
envisioned by Cessna during the concept stage of the airplane's design and
marketing phase.
The analogy I believe is fairly close to being correct for the Edsel.
:-)
Dudley Henriques
(ex Skymaster Check Pilot)