Re: First plane to Durango came by train
| August 02, 2014 04:00PM |
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The plane of choice for many mountain charters--until fairly recently--was one of the old Waco cabin biplanes Like the one in this picture.
Their turbocharged P&W 450's could develop power even in thin air, and those two big wings gave wonderful lift.
Don't try to fly out of a Colorado mountain valley on a warm day in a tired old Cherokee 140.
I wasn't the pilot, and nothing got pranged--or even scratched--but it took many, many 360's to get over the mountain.
Bob
Their turbocharged P&W 450's could develop power even in thin air, and those two big wings gave wonderful lift.
Don't try to fly out of a Colorado mountain valley on a warm day in a tired old Cherokee 140.
I wasn't the pilot, and nothing got pranged--or even scratched--but it took many, many 360's to get over the mountain.Bob
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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