North Korea's HIGHLY ORIGINAL light single.
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Pilot Fighter
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The Supreme Leader is proud of its engine's 10,000 hour TBO.
deadstick
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It would have a 540 engine, weigh 300 lbs more, and start at $800k.
WacoFan
Bigly
I would like the motor, hate the weight gain, and would want them to price it at $150k. Really, heavy airplanes suck. I'm not talking big planes, just weight that doesn't need to be there.
z987k
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Which is why it wouldn't actually sell and then Cessna would complain that there's no market. Which there isn't for an 800k overweight pig of a 185.
knot4u
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What about a "modernized" 130/140 restoration? A small market for sure but there is a market. sounds like retirement fun. Airplanes that don't require a profit.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
The discomfort you feel is real. It's called the "uncanny valley", and generally applies to either photo-realistic animation or "lifelike" robots, but can apply in situations like this as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Richman
fholbert
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Ah so, that looks like a fricking Cessna but uglier.
z987k
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Maybe. The 170B is more popular. The 185 is to, and the vast majority of them are privately owned. But the private owners don't want an over weight airplane either.
WacoFan
Bigly
Couldn't sell it LSA as it was certified higher than 1320. Have to buy type certificate I think.
hook_dupin
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Perhaps they've figured out how to make it slip with the flaps extended...
deadstick
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Well, it doesn't have a t-tail, so "no."
Technically, the stock Skyhawk CAN slip with the flaps extended. The lawyers (the same who insisted they install 13 fuel sumps on the new ones) put that blurb in the AFM because it might get nasty.
fholbert
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Cessna plane crashes in North Korea last week
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/07/cessna-plane-crashes-in-north-korea.html
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- A small North Korean plane, the same type of plane used by leader Kim Jong-un, has crashed, an official said Thursday.
The Cessna went down near the eastern port city of Wonsan, home to Kim's special villa, on July 15, said the South Korean official familiar with the issue.
The crash was confirmed with intelligence assets of South Korea and the U.S., she said, without elaborating on the assets or the Cessna model.
She did not provide any further details of whether there were any casualties of those who were on board the doomed flight.
Kim was apparently not on board the ill-fated plane. On July 15, North Korea's state television aired footage of Kim taking photos with participants of an ambassadors meeting in Pyongyang.
On Sunday, Kim cast a ballot in the elections to select deputies to local assemblies, which were held for the first time in four years, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea's state media remained silent on the accident.
Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office, declined to comment. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea's top spy agency, referred inquiries to the Defense Ministry, saying it could not confirm the plane crash.
Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said he had no information.
Another source in the intelligence community said that Kim Jong-un has used a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a four-seat, single-engine aircraft built by the Cessna Aircraft Co., a U.S. aviation company.
North Korea has assembled Cessna planes by importing parts through a third country, he said, without naming the country. He said Cessna models in North Korea include the Cessna 152 and the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. He asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity.
In March last year, footage of the North's state television showed a small plane presumed to be the Cessna 172 Skyhawk during Kim's inspection trip to an air force unit.
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/07/cessna-plane-crashes-in-north-korea.html
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- A small North Korean plane, the same type of plane used by leader Kim Jong-un, has crashed, an official said Thursday.
The Cessna went down near the eastern port city of Wonsan, home to Kim's special villa, on July 15, said the South Korean official familiar with the issue.
The crash was confirmed with intelligence assets of South Korea and the U.S., she said, without elaborating on the assets or the Cessna model.
She did not provide any further details of whether there were any casualties of those who were on board the doomed flight.
Kim was apparently not on board the ill-fated plane. On July 15, North Korea's state television aired footage of Kim taking photos with participants of an ambassadors meeting in Pyongyang.
On Sunday, Kim cast a ballot in the elections to select deputies to local assemblies, which were held for the first time in four years, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea's state media remained silent on the accident.
Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office, declined to comment. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea's top spy agency, referred inquiries to the Defense Ministry, saying it could not confirm the plane crash.
Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said he had no information.
Another source in the intelligence community said that Kim Jong-un has used a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a four-seat, single-engine aircraft built by the Cessna Aircraft Co., a U.S. aviation company.
North Korea has assembled Cessna planes by importing parts through a third country, he said, without naming the country. He said Cessna models in North Korea include the Cessna 152 and the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. He asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity.
In March last year, footage of the North's state television showed a small plane presumed to be the Cessna 172 Skyhawk during Kim's inspection trip to an air force unit.
FloridaLarry
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Larger cockpit? Just look at him (Great BIG Leader), if you can get by the cigarette he's waving near the fuel tanks.
Their US parts supplier better find a new source for the spinner, also. Madonna only has one left (or right?).
Their US parts supplier better find a new source for the spinner, also. Madonna only has one left (or right?).
A Life Aloft
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deadstick
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Coffee -- all over everything.
Then I had this image in my head of KJU wearing that Madonna outfit. It's rare that I feel nauseated while laughing.
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I can't imagine how the weight and balance works out with the great leader and all his snacks on-board a 172.
