Skywagon Fly-in

[Mtns2Skies]

Having a great time here in steamboat CO! Learning TONS about my plane and making fantastic friends. If you've never gone to a type club meeting - I highly recommend it.

My plane and 70 of her sisters.

 

[GRG55]

Must be a cult.

Reported.

 

[steingar]

Meetings like that are fun, good for you. Of course, one could simply reply:


Misery loves company.

 

[Mtns2Skies]

 

[EdFred]

When flying Skywagon, every XC is a long XC!

 

[Mtns2Skies]

When flying Skywagon, every XC is a long XC!

A couple of them here will handily outrun the comanche... Mine will not.

 

[EdFred]

A couple of them here will handily outrun the comanche... Mine will not.

170+kt skywagons? I call BS

 

[Grum.Man]

170+kt skywagons? I call BS

There are 170 kt Comanche's??

 

[Mtns2Skies]

170+kt skywagons? I call BS

185kt C185 skywagon. Over 320hp and an amazingly clean airframe speed mods with wheel pants... Even for the tailwheel. Owned by a Cessna engineer. There's some other quick ones. Hell my stock 180 is a 140KTAS plane.

 

[steingar]

Hell my stock 180 is a 140KTAS plane.

Firewalled in the descent maybe.

 

[texasclouds]

Lucky!

 

[Mtns2Skies]

Firewalled in the descent maybe.

Uhhh no. That's book numbers bud. 182s do 135. Skywagons don't have a nosewheel and are fastback. Not much a Skywagon can't do.

But please, continue to make ignorant remarks about an aircraft you know nothing about.

 

[EdFred]

There are 170 kt Comanche's??

he said handily, which means 15% faster or so in my book. Still, 180 knots. The owner probably also fishes a lot.

The turbo Comanche will do 200 true at altitude I'm told, but never verified in person.