[Leica] IMG: A Puzzler for Cessna Buffs

[Sonny Carter]

I can't tell you how much I've flown in 172's and and 182's.  I liked them
because you can use a Phillips screwdriver and unlatch the window brace.
Then when you are aloft, you open the window, and it sits up by the wing,
so you have a pretty good shot out the window.  We even took the right seat
out one time, when I needed to use a bigger camera rig, and I knelt there
shooting.  I had plenty of leg room that day!

I also used to fly in a 182 float plane, when the shots were of stuff down
in the Gulf.  Once the Gulf was so calm around a rig fire that we landed,
and taxied around it with me standing on the float to get my shot.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to recall one at a fly-in here, and I was surprised that it wasn't
> a tricycle.
>
> This article seems to bear it out, and solve your N6888A mystery.  (love
> the number, I wonder who he had to kill to get it!)
>
> https://www.americanflyers.net/airplanes/cessna_172.htm
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I've never seen that, Sonny.  After I checked this one out, I looked up
>> the Wiki history of the 172, and it reported what I recalled, that Cessna
>> saw the customer demand for tricycle gear coming, and knew that the 170
>> sales would drop.  So, they made the change to tricycle gear.
>>
>> I have only flown one 172, a 1957 model, and it was definitely tricycle
>> gear.  I had to rent it from my FAA Examiner in order to demonstrate VOR
>> radio navigation, because all of my training had been in a J-3 Cub with no
>> electrical system, so that's what I used for my check ride.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 9/13/2015 2:18 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>
>>> Somehow, and I don't know how I know, that the early 172's were draggers
>>> like the 170.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I spoke with the pilot of this pretty Cessna yesterday, because we have a
>>>> mutual friend.  But I didn't really look closely at the airplane until
>>>> he
>>>> was taxiing away to go home.  I snapped a photo to get the registration
>>>> number, thinking all along that it was a Cessna 180.
>>>>
>>>> Lo and behold, when I ran the registration, I found it to be a 1956
>>>> Cessna
>>>> 172.  Apparently, at some point in its life, it was converted to
>>>> conventional gear.  It makes a very pretty configuration, quite
>>>> different
>>>> from the conventional Cessna 170 with its rounded rudder.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/1956+Cessna.tif.html
>>>>
>>>> X-E1 with 27mm
>>>>
>>>> Any comments would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
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>
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>
> Sonny
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> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 1714
> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>
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>



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Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA