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"lucky lindy" wrote:

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I just got word that the UK-based e-mag, AV8 has an article on my
Johnson Rocket. See: http://www.av8magazine.com/

You have to register, but that is free. The E-mag offers a slightly
different view of GA flying.

Thanks, that is a very interesting article. That plane came out the same
year (1946) that I got my PPL. I didn't remember that one but I did remember
the Globe Swift. There was another small plane that came out about the same
time named the Culver Cadet. I learned to fly in a J3 Cub.
Sam in Milam

Pop Johnson made the original GC-1 wooden Swift. When he lost control of
the program, he took the wood Swift home, changed it out to an O-290,
changed the tail and called it the "Rocket 125." That plane still exists
and resides at the Swift Museum, in Athens, TN. Its performance wasn't
that good, so they designed a new one around the O-435 Lycoming, and
with a nose gear and called it the "Rocket 185."

It was the hot setup in 1946.