Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Exactly how I did it when shooting aerials! Glad there's some other bright guy out there! -----Original Message----- From: Sonny Carter Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 2:52 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: A Puzzler for Cessna Buffs 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information