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Maybe someone forgot to untie the tail and you were dragging a large piece
of the airport along with you :)

BDS


I've heard of that being done, although not in a C152, and really wish I
could have been a "mouse in the woodwork" :-)

OTOH, presuming that the OP does routinely use both of the aircraft in
question, and that the weight was normal, the only thing that occurs to me
is a notch of flaps. They seem easy to see, and difficult to miss; but I
have seen it done with a C172--and I have done it myself in a PA38, which is
a mildly amusing story: I had forgotten to retract the flaps following the
preflight, for a dual flight, and then taxied out and completed the run up;
and was still blissfully unaware. This was c1980, before headsets were in
common use; and just as we took the runway, I noticed my instructor
confiding something into the microphone--so I presumed that we were about to
have some sort or "emergency." I later learned that he was sure that the
Tomahawk would not take off with full flaps on an 85 degree day, and had
told the tower to expect an aborted take off. Actually, it would and did,
and quickly climbed to the top of ground effect (at an abnormally low
airspeed) and then I discovered that it is possible to press the release
button in a little too far (and get it stuck inside the flap handle... But
I promised to be brief; so I will only add that we did safely resume the
climb, I learned to be more thorough, and I also learned not to get the
button stuck inside that damned handle!

Peter