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Old 18th May 2008, 05:56 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Default What would you buy with a 50k budget?


"Newps" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Kirk Ellis wrote:
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>> Are half century old airplanes still viable machines? It sounds scary
>> buying something that is almost as old as I am.

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> And remember, when you start looking at fuel burns most people don't look
> at gas mileage, only how much an airplane can burn. Then inevitably they
> pick something like a 172, 182 or a Cherokee that are inefficient. They
> have their missions but cross country isn't one they're good at.


Yeh

C182. Just a terrible cross country machine. :)

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Howard


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