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  1. J Frank Montgomery

    Would my AI survive a roll?

    If one is serious about acrobatics, then one can locate many acro instructor guys around the country with aircraft suitable for acro.. like Citabrias and up. Acro is great fun and doing it (correctly) on a regular basis is a neat way for honing one's flying skills.
  2. J Frank Montgomery

    Cessna 182 vs 177

    The 182 I flew had fixed gear as well as the Cardinal and I admit it was a few years ago. I would probably still prefer the 182 out west at the higher field elevations. But that would be my opinion and should not deter you from looking at more recent aircraft performance data for take off...
  3. J Frank Montgomery

    Would my AI survive a roll?

    I did a barrel roll in a Cessna 177 once upon a time. While I got the nice 30 deg off and nose under the horizon just like the book sez, during the rolling pullup, the 177 had such low aileron authority (and correspondingly low roll rate), that the bird literally ran out of air speed...
  4. J Frank Montgomery

    Cessna 182 vs 177

    Our flying club once had a nice 182 with long range tanks. While I always liked the styling of the 177, when it came to short fields and heavy loads, the 182 was hard to beat. Of course expense comes into play if one goes for retractable gear on either the 182 or 177. If conventional non...
  5. J Frank Montgomery

    Would you choose to learn to fly in a tailwheel aircraft?

    My wise and old original flight instructor once said that one should take advantage of all opportunities to fly different types of aircraft. Once we learned how to fly a 172 (in the college senior ROTC program), we would go back to the old Raleigh airport where we had met and become friends...
  6. J Frank Montgomery

    B-25 loses wing in blizzard

    Wow, how unfortunate. The B-25 is a classic aircraft. One would wonder if the main spar went from fatigue or corrosion/fatigue?
  7. J Frank Montgomery

    new member

    just joined PoA. I am a retired aerospace engineer in Hamilton, OH. My company was GE Aviation. Although no longer flying I hold SMEL/Instrument/LT-33 ratings and in my youth, was an Air Force All weather fighter interceptor pilot in Air Defense Command. Last assignment was the 59th FIS at...
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