wrote:
: Picking a nit here... but a "C-140" is common vernacular for a Cessna
: 140. A high-wing, two-seater taildragger from days of yore when
: aviation was still magical and electric starters were just barely
: beginning to be viewed as not for sissies anymore. Referring to a
: Cherokee 140 as a C-140 is horribly incorrect.

I agree... I had to reread a number of posts to figure out what they were
saying. A C-140 is a 2-place, tailwheel Cessna. A -140 when one's already talking
about Cherokees might be OK, otherwise, it's a PA28-140.

: be in the C-172 would be if I have a real engine-out and am forced to
: land in a tight space. The Skyhawk can land much slower and shorter
: than a Cherokee can.

Legendary Hershey-bar, "brick" glide ratio. It sure does stall nicely,
though... It also seems to load very nonlinearly. Basically, it seems to fly the
same as you load it up until a point, and then won't climb anymore.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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