Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
Machtuck, I really enjoyed flying the Aerocommanders, even if their body would flex on rotation and the seat would run backwards on its rails!
Barely avoided an accident one day in Inverell, lucky the pax behind me gave me a shove to get back in reach of the controls.
wow! You where lucky!
funny I used to overhaul the Lyc IO540 E1B5's on the AC500's in the 70's (the one in the photo I overhauled both engines, poor pilots...lolol) and years latter I ended up flying them -)