06-30-2020, 11:50 AM
(06-30-2020, 09:12 AM)727Sky Wrote: This was my last aircraft I owned..
The gas turbine was removed and I used an IO-360 Continental rated at 210H.P. but after redoing the engine it would produce 235 H.P. static .....I did almost three years of local airshows in that bird and with the 210 the bird actually looked better . I typically cruised at 190 MPH ... The red line on a regular Swift was 189 MPH but the SwiftFIRE had no problem when doing airshows at 250 Mph. I had owned three other Swifts before the SwiftFire and they the Swifts will always have a soft place in my heart.. I can fly a Cessna but golly Gee I hate to tell anyone I arrived in one...unless it is a
OK kinda hard to chunk grenades' out of that Citation but at least you look good !
So whether helicopter or fixed wing if I can get it started I can fly it; or die trying hahahaha Priority though is we gotta look cool which kinda leaves a Cessna bug smasher out of the acquisition IMO !!
Or we could all sit back and wait until the next Top Gun Movie comes out from behind the safety of our popcorn !!
BUT - and this is the important question - do you know how to hot-wire a Lear Jet? It would be pretty cool to run bombing runs with a Lear, wouldn't it? Just remove the hatch and chuck the goodies right out the doorway...
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Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’