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Old 18th Aug 2009, 22:57
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con-pilot

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I had the great pleasure of flying a highly modified Chipmunk for a while. It had a 300hp Lycoming engine, a modified bubble canopy, standard hydraulic brakes on the rudder peddles and the vertical stabilizer and rudder size had been increased to handle the torque from the engine.

You could do a inside square loop with no problems, the guy that owned it would do outside square loops, I wasn't that brave, or that eager to pull that many negative Gs for so long either for that matter.

A very sad end to the story of my friend owning that Chipmunk. He got married, started having children and his wife made him sell it.

I never did find out what happened to it after he sold it.

I just remember how much fun it was to fly.
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