"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Mike Isaksen" wrote in news:btIfk.451$6O4.14
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"JGalban" wrote ...
A Mooney mechanic friend took a look at the pics and
he figures that it was a combination of the mass of
the engine, plus the sturdy steel cage in the Mooney.


Mooney has a steel cage?




Well, not a steel cage, but the forward half of the fuselage is a steel
tube structure, just like a cub.


Bertie

Well duh, would that not be a steel cage like a cub?