Jumbo Jockey
10th Jun 2001, 18:18
Saturday afternoon in the garden trimming the hedge (most unusual for me actually to be off on the weekend anyway but that's another story) and I look up, as usual, at the sound of an aeroplane passing over (where I live we get a lot of Gatwick and Farnborough arrivals and stacks of local area stuff from Shoreham and Goodwood - it takes me a long time to get anything done in my garden...).
Its wings and tailplane had pretty much the classic shape you expect on a Cessna single, and the engine note sounded throaty enough to be at least a 182 if not one of the Stationairs. On either side of the engine cowling, however, sprouted what looked like a pair of stubby canard surfaces, maybe a couple of feet each in span.
The Anorak who lurks, barely-suppressed like some dark alter-ego beneath my overtly-civilized exterior wants to know: Anybody know anything about it - STOL mod? Cruise efficiency?
Its wings and tailplane had pretty much the classic shape you expect on a Cessna single, and the engine note sounded throaty enough to be at least a 182 if not one of the Stationairs. On either side of the engine cowling, however, sprouted what looked like a pair of stubby canard surfaces, maybe a couple of feet each in span.
The Anorak who lurks, barely-suppressed like some dark alter-ego beneath my overtly-civilized exterior wants to know: Anybody know anything about it - STOL mod? Cruise efficiency?