Actually I [Jim Macklin] did not say it was cheap,
under-powered and make-shift.

Cessna even tried to put it on floats but it ate props with
water spray.



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"Roger" wrote in message
...
| On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:41:04 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| Sounds underpowered, cheap and make-shift. I wonder why
| they sold/bought so many of them?
|
| In "our world" where people don't shoot at you, at least
not very
| often, it was big, roomy, and you did have a second engine
without the
| problems of asymmetrical thrust on an engine failure.
|
| OTOH As I recall it was not all that fast, used a lot of
gas, and as
| John said, noisy and not well ventilated
|
| If you wanted to really use gas you could get the turbo
charged
| version. I don't know how many of those they sold.
| We had one (turbo charged version) here on the field about
10 years
| ago. The guy said he'd always wanted one, but only kept
it about a
| year. It was eating him out of house and home for gas and
maintenance.
| I don't know if it was due to that specific plane or it
was a trait of
| the breed.
|
| Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
| (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
| www.rogerhalstead.com
|
|
|
| "Big John" wrote in message
| .. .
| | Jim
| |
| | Just a few of the things.
| |
| | Bought to use on trail. However if you lost an engine
over
| the trail
| | the single engine altitude way they were loaded
prevented
| you from
| | getting over the mountains and back to VN to land.
| |
| | At cruise power, when FACing, you could turn about 270
| degree's and
| | then got the stall warning and had to go to METO power
to
| stay
| | airborne and FAC.
| |
| | In 0-1 you could drop a wing and kick rudder and be on
| target to fire
| | a Willie Pete marking rocket. In 0-2 you had to fly a
| coordinated turn
| | from a base leg to the launch heading and then
coordinate
| corrections
| | to get pipper on target.
| |
| | In 0-1 you lost about 150 altitude and didn't pick up
any
| airspeed to
| | speak of. In 0-2 you picked up a lot of airspeed and
lost
| a lot of
| | altitude and had to pull a high 'G' recovery. Doing
this
| all day tired
| | you out in heat and also put you closer to any ground
fire
| from target
| | area.
| |
| | Bird had 'X' number of feet of ground roll on take off.
| You couldn't
| | pull off and stagger into the air in a short field.
| |
| | If you landed on Laderite (sp)you almost always got
rear
| prop damage
| | from front prop picking up rock, gravel, Msc and it
| hitting the rear
| | prop and causing damage.
| |
| | Cockpit was pretty air tight and hot at low altitude
(FAC
| altitude) in
| | heat and moisture. No way to keep cool like you could
in
| the 0-1 with
| | the windows open. And more and more and
| more...............
| |
| | Big John
| |
|
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| |
| | On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:57:17 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| | wrote:
| |
| | I know they bought a lot of them, but it seems from
your
| | tone, that you know first-hand. Tell us all.
| |
| |
| | "Big John" wrote in message
| | .. .
| | | Jim
| | |
| | | Not so. Be glad to tell you the limitations of 0-2
in
| VN.
| | |
| | | Big John
| | | ```````````````````````````````````
| | |
| | | On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:18:12 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| | | wrote:
| | |
| | | It was not a safer twin since the failure of an
engine
| | was
| | | not as quickly detected since there was no yaw,
just
| | reduced
| | | performance. It did not have good baggage areas
and
| it
| | was
| | | noisy inside.
| | |
| | | It was successful as a FAC aircraft in VN as the
O-2
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | | "Dudley Henriques" wrote
in
| | | message
| | |
| |
|
link.net...
| | | |
| | | | "john smith" wrote in message
| | | |
| | |
| |
|
...
| | | | Looking at the design of the C377, it seems
| like
| | it
| | | should have been
| | | | more
| | | | of a winner. Why did it flop?
| | | |
| | | | My old CFI said guys would forget to start the
| back
| | | engine or not notice
| | | | that it would quit and end up crashing, true
or
| not
| | I
| | | don't know but it
| | | | was
| | | | his story. I always thought it was an odd
looking
| | | piece.
| | | |
| | | | To that I would add that I personally think the
| 200
| | hp
| | | O-360's are not
| | | | enough power for the size and weight of the
| aircraft.
| | | |
| | | | Maintenance wise, we had a cracked case on one of
| the
| | | engines that was a bit
| | | | costly to fix :-) and you had to monitor the EGT
| | | carefully on takeoff
| | | | because the noise was so bad you couldn't pick up
an
| | | engine problem during
| | | | the run, but aside from that, fun to fly!
| | | |
| | | | Dudley Henriques
| | | |
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