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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 23, 2006
Description:
1973 Citabria 7KCAB.
I learned sportsman category aerobatics in this great ol bird. Yankin and Bankin is almost as fun as Landing on Water. She made me a better pilot though. I have a commercial and instrument rating, and had never spun an aircraft before the citabria. She had a Lycoming I/O 320 and could run inverted for about 45 sec before the oil pressure would drop. Favorite maneuver: avalange (snap roll at the top of a loop)
Date Taken:
Oct 23, 2006
Place Taken:
Lansing MI
Owner:
Jim Ploucha
File Name:
CitabJPG.jpg - Photo HTML
Full size - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZVW00000h">
Medium - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZVW00000m">
Thumbnail - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZVW00000s">
Category:
10, Just Fun Seaplanes,
42, Just Nice Pictures
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Read what others had to say:
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Dan Nickens - Oct 23,2006
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That is the way a picture of an aerobatic airplane should look, Jim! Nice.
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Jim Ploucha - Oct 24,2006
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Thx Dan, that means a lot comin from you. A magazine photographer in a Cessna 182 took the photo for an article on people with exciting hobbies.
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Charles Pickett - Oct 25,2006
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My 1999 8KCAB Super Decathlon has a Lycoming AEIO360 and fully inverted fuel and oil systems. She was delivered new in October of 99 to KTAN and now has 690 hr on her today, more then likely the first and only new plane I will ever have but she is the best for what ever you would like to do excluding water landings.
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Jim Ploucha - Oct 28,2006
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Shes a beaute. I flew a decathalon once. The symetrical airfoil and higher neg g capability made it a much better aeorbatic airplane than my Citabria. I miss aerobatics sometimes, but forget all about it when I am operating on H2O.
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Charles Pickett - Oct 28,2006
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Jim >>> ( Thanks) My first choice is still the decathlon, but I am getting a better feeling about the SeaRey I just have to fly it more then I do.
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