Airparks; Living On The Beaten Path?

"Peter Dohm" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Highflyer" wrote in message
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The Tcart used to cruise at 100 in real life on a Continental A-65.

I have flown several Coupes. Have yet to see 110 mph in level
flight on any of them!

Sometimes specifications are accurate, and sometimes they aren't!
:-)

Highflyer
Highflight Aviation Services
Pinckneyville Airport, PJY


At one time, I marvelled at how much more capable so many older
designs must have been--and then I learned that some of those old
factory specs were just as imaginative as some of the earliest kits.

Actually, many of them were quite accurate. HF is right, the T-cart
would do close on 100 with an A-65 and so would a Luscombe. The
Monocoupe 90 was very quick and the 30s Cessnas delivered as
advertised as well. The aoirplanes that could be classified as
"pilots" airplanes tended to do waht they said in advertising because
if they didn;'t they would be found out pretty quickly. The airplanes
that were pitched more at newcomers probably suffered more from
exageration.


Bertie

Thanks for that. Some of those old Cessna numbers really looked a
little too good--so I am expecially glad they were true.

I had previously confirmed that the T-carts were impressive
performers, but have never known anything about the Monocoupes.


Well, they won races time after time in the thirties. Nothing could
touch them. Johnny Livingston even flew one race inverted to spice
things up.With bigger engines and clipped wings they went even faster.
We're talking RV performance in the early thirties with similar
horsepower and farily hairy chested handling.. Since Don Luscombe was
one of the designers you can see how the Luscombes were race-bred.


Bertie