On Dec 21, 4:13*am, "Roger (K8RI)" wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:06:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:





"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk *at wow way d0t com wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Four people in a Cherokee 140? Are you serious?

And how many JATO bottles are used during this takeoff?

Two diet coke bottles with Menthos thrown in

Good Golly Dewd, don't you know anything? Diet Vernors is way better
for this than Diet Coke. *:-)

You learn something new in usenet every day.

But I don't think the plan was to have all the owners in the plane at
the same time...

Used to do 135 in a cherokee 180 out of a very short strip and it would get
anything out of there you could stuff inside of it!
Not a very pleasant airplane to fly, but they are sturdy and they do go
well.

I did a photo shoot for a couple of owners wayyy back in 1990 (give or
take a year) One had a Cherokee 140 and the other *a 180. *I shot from
the 180 to start then we landed at a small airport (Standish
Industrial air-park) which is now private. They both used little
runway for landing, but on take off I didn't think the 140 was going
to make it. *The 180 was off in a fraction of the distance.

I enjoyed flying a 180 with the old Hershey Bar wing, but after that
really disliked the 140. Except for landing I remember the two as
being quite different animals although they are both quite docile.

I spun the 180 a number of times. It was only later I found the
factory placard was a mistake. :-)) *In a fully developed spin proper
inputs would appear to do nothing unless you waited a full turn to
turn and a half and then it'd stop in another half turn.



Different from the 140 in spins? cause I used to spin them all the
time for training. I flew a 181 recently and noticed that it wasn´t
certified for spins.
I preferred the square wing ones myself, though i haven´t a lot of
time in the newer ones anyway.


Bertie