IO just looked in the book and the '95 era was when it was based at Elstree, it was white hull with black stripes, normal radios etc, A/P was U/S i think! if you look up ginfo it was shortly after this period it came to reside in your neck of the woods
The story does seem to ring a bell though
Must agree with English, 115kn seems to be my memory of something like 75% settings on the TB10. I used to fly a 180 Arrow out of Stapleford but the fuel was in US Gallons/hour about 9 or 10 in the cruise? 35-40 ltrs/hr then? A PA32 i flew out of Turweston many times had the IO540 engine and you could get that back to 60 ltrs/hr in the cruise without it getting too hot! But you are shifting 6 pax at 135kn so not too shabby! If you do the ltrs per passenger mile calcs, the PA32 comes out very well, so do Mooneys i think? Sorry for the thread creep
