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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Huff or Puff
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Date: Sun, 16-Sep-84 15:56:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 16 15:56:34 1984
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While on the subject of the relative efficiencies of pushers and pullers,
I haven't flown a Cessna Skymaster for years, but if my memory serves me
right, the engine-out performance (rate-of-climb) is better with the rear
fan still turning than with only the front. Anyone have the numbers?
Incidentally, the Skymaster has the obvious advantages of a twin, without
the usual disadvantages (particularly for a SEL licencee like me) of
worrying about asymmetric thrust if you lose an engine on takeoff. 
Unfortunately it is also very noisy.

Bob Langridge, Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California,
               San Francisco, CA 94143.  (415) 666-2630
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