Why didn't the Cessna 337 make it?

Jim

Just a few of the things.

Bought to use on trail. However if you lost an engine over the trail
the single engine altitude way they were loaded prevented you from
getting over the mountains and back to VN to land.

At cruise power, when FACing, you could turn about 270 degree's and
then got the stall warning and had to go to METO power to stay
airborne and FAC.

In 0-1 you could drop a wing and kick rudder and be on target to fire
a Willie Pete marking rocket. In 0-2 you had to fly a coordinated turn
from a base leg to the launch heading and then coordinate corrections
to get pipper on target.

In 0-1 you lost about 150 altitude and didn't pick up any airspeed to
speak of. In 0-2 you picked up a lot of airspeed and lost a lot of
altitude and had to pull a high 'G' recovery. Doing this all day tired
you out in heat and also put you closer to any ground fire from target
area.

Bird had 'X' number of feet of ground roll on take off. You couldn't
pull off and stagger into the air in a short field.

If you landed on Laderite (sp)you almost always got rear prop damage
from front prop picking up rock, gravel, Msc and it hitting the rear
prop and causing damage.

Cockpit was pretty air tight and hot at low altitude (FAC altitude) in
heat and moisture. No way to keep cool like you could in the 0-1 with
the windows open. And more and more and more...............

Big John
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:57:17 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

I know they bought a lot of them, but it seems from your
tone, that you know first-hand. Tell us all.


"Big John" wrote in message
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| Jim
|
| Not so. Be glad to tell you the limitations of 0-2 in VN.
|
| Big John
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| On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:18:12 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| It was not a safer twin since the failure of an engine
was
| not as quickly detected since there was no yaw, just
reduced
| performance. It did not have good baggage areas and it
was
| noisy inside.
|
| It was successful as a FAC aircraft in VN as the O-2
|
|
|
| "Dudley Henriques" wrote in
| message
|
link.net...
| |
| | "john smith" wrote in message
| |
|
...
| | Looking at the design of the C377, it seems like
it
| should have been
| | more
| | of a winner. Why did it flop?
| |
| | My old CFI said guys would forget to start the back
| engine or not notice
| | that it would quit and end up crashing, true or not
I
| don't know but it
| | was
| | his story. I always thought it was an odd looking
| piece.
| |
| | To that I would add that I personally think the 200
hp
| O-360's are not
| | enough power for the size and weight of the aircraft.
| |
| | Maintenance wise, we had a cracked case on one of the
| engines that was a bit
| | costly to fix :-) and you had to monitor the EGT
| carefully on takeoff
| | because the noise was so bad you couldn't pick up an
| engine problem during
| | the run, but aside from that, fun to fly!
| |
| | Dudley Henriques
| |
| |
|
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