On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:46:46 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Jim Burns wrote:

What it looked like was an early straight leg 172 fastback, but it had a
swept tail, not a straight tail. Beautiful airplane but nobody had heard of
a swept tail fastback.

The swept tail was added in 1960. Omni-vision came around in 1963. You probably
saw one of the interim aircraft.

Yeah. The '61 172B we just sold was like that.. FWIW, several pilots
I took flying in it said it felt more "solid" than more recent 172s
they'd owned or flown.

Don