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Old March 9th 08, 07:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]
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Dan wrote in news:232d9062-0ff2-468a-82cd-
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On Mar 9, 3:47 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

I've flown them, they're awful.

Mooney warmed it up in the sixties with a single Mooney style fin.

these
were even spinnable. It was called the Cadet. Very few were sold.


Heard of it, never saw one.


Seen a few. There was one for sale on Barnstormers recently.


Bertie


Awful because?


No rudders. Even the ones built by Alon, which had pedals, didn't have
decent yaw control.

The big problem with them is, they;re 'idiot proof'. When you make
something idiot proof, all you do is breed a better class of idiot.
Idiots are like antibiotic resistant staff infections like that.

Bertie