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and nothing provides more pure joy than a sunset formation flight [code]in our L-2M. I am not trading it for a C-120.
Well that's good, I'm never intending to sell or trade mine, at sunset or at dawn, or any other time. So don't have to worry about you coming to ask about it any time soon
Of course, the C120, having learned from the early mistakes of Walter, Clyde, and Lloyd, is the better aircraft. No tubes in its fuselage! Just smooth rivets all the way down and around, no welding at all! Rags are just for the smooth wing, so we agree there.
Sticks you say? Nah, give me a nice flat top yoke any day, in a plane so well balanced it's flown more like a helicopter in cruise with two nimble fingers. And with the palm on the middle of the yoke in IMC for an ethereal ride through the cottony sky. Never did figure out why they switched to the "cool" rams' horns, probably marketing.
C120 is slow, but cruises down low in the
three figures. Think that's practically warp speed in this class. Now let's hope some Luscombe driver doesn't show up... They always seem to be about "speed" in a class that's known for not having it.
Seats fore and aft? Yeah, explain that to my wife when we are on our nearly nightly evening summer cruise around the lake - "please sit where the baggage goes?: Heck, it might be for sale at that point notwithstanding paragraph 1!
"Object in mirror don't matter" as far as the lizard, crocodile, turtle, whatever deck is so nice on the L-2. We leave the testudines home anyhow.
20 knot crosswind? Sure, and since she's sometimes based at an airport where they only kept the crosswind runway, it's a good thing. And the 120, unlike apparently the L-2, is so well set up that greasers can be had on grass or on pavement, wheels on or 3-pt. Guess Taylor skipped that class.
Challenge accepted! Low and slow still brings the most smiles. @Tom you may recognize the locale in the picture.
