Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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I had the same feeling. Better nose vis in the standard and the 450 was
heavy as hell in the glide. Great airplanes though and a whole lot of
fun. Flying open is a special experience :-)



Only way to go in my book. Stearman was a great aerobatic trainer.
Virtually unburstable (except the prop, of course)

Yeah. I remember Rolly Cole going in with a prop failure.




and demanding enough to
do aerobatics in, but it was no Waco...

Never flew the Wacos. Great airplanes.
The Lakes was even better, but I got only a little time in them.

The Lakes was a real fun machine. Stable and feisty enough (unless you
had flown a Jungmiester that is :-))


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Dudley Henriques