Shuttle Carrier & a Cessna 400

[AirVenture]

One day I get to see the Shuttle Carrier, the next I get a demo ride in a Cessna 400!

 

[tlewis95]

Cool pics!

 

[///AMG]

Shuttle tiles look pretty neat post-re-entry. Your pics really captured it!

 

[TGatch]

sweet pics! Really like those shuttle pics.

 

[Hckey2477]

The Cessna 400 is Awesome. I got to scope one out yesterday.

 

[NEOHIO]

Nice Pics! We've had a Kelly Aerospace Cessna 400 on our ramp over the last month, mean look with the forward sweep on the landing gear!

 

[roundout]

Did you fly with Pia? What did you think about the Cezz 400?

 

[JumpWake]

That's a CESSNA?! Wow.

 

[AirVenture]

Did you fly with Pia? What did you think about the Cezz 400?

Yup, I flew with Pia! She was great about letting all of your CFI's go up for a quick hop. She even took us out for lunch on Cessna's tab. It's a great plane, but it makes it painful to step back into a 172!

 

[ParrotheadJGR11]

great pics, i want a cessna 400 :drool:

 

[TallFlyer]

That's a CESSNA?! Wow.

Well, Cessna bought out Columbia and put their name on the aircraft. I believe Columbia is an offshoot of Lancair. Thus the cool looking airplanes.

 

[ozone]

Too bad the cessna 400 has a really crappy useful load for the engine size (only about 400lbs after you put in a full tank of gas). I would rather get a Diamond DA40xx or a cirrus sr20. Used, both are way cheaper than the 400 and both have useful loads of 600lbs (after full tanks) with a <200hp motor...so easy on the gas consumption as well.

Anyway, what was cooler: the shuttle or the 400?

 

[Scandinavian13]

That's a CESSNA?! Wow.

That's what I was thinking...
It definitely doesn't look like one.

 

[coa787]

Nice Cessna.

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

It was, is, and always will be a Lancair...DAMNIT!