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B4RT
May 10th 05, 05:26 PM
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
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> Got a quick Schweizer transition flight in yesterday. Nothing
> spectacular, just a quick puddle jump to get me used to flying the
> ugly little *******.

HEY!

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. IMHO the 22 is about as fugly as you can
get,
and its hard to ignore that goofy cyclic and giraffe-in-a-neck brace
looking
mast shroud. Its like peoples kids, you cant ever say theyre ugly no matter
how
true it is.. The Schweizer & even the Enstrom have a kind of pinache all
their own.

LOL,
Bart

Beav
May 11th 05, 09:48 PM
"B4RT" > wrote in message
...
>
> "The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
> message ...
>> Got a quick Schweizer transition flight in yesterday. Nothing
>> spectacular, just a quick puddle jump to get me used to flying the
>> ugly little *******.
>
> HEY!
>
> Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. IMHO the 22 is about as fugly as you
> can get,
> and its hard to ignore that goofy cyclic and giraffe-in-a-neck brace
> looking
> mast shroud. Its like peoples kids, you cant ever say theyre ugly no
> matter how
> true it is.. The Schweizer & even the Enstrom have a kind of pinache all
> their own.

And in the case of the Hughes/Schweizer, a built in headwind too:)


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Beav

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