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Subject: Re: most beautiful airplane
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 21:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 21:02:00 1985
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	You think the Cardinal RG is gawky, try the Caravan. With its 54'
wing and the fixed gear and struts, it look like a beast in sheep's clothing!
With a useful load of 3454 lbs. and its turbine, it can and does blow doors
off of other tin cans!

	As for nice looking planes, dig up a picture of the Windecker Eagle,
the first composite general aviation aircraft. It's sleek lines really make
this baby look sleek. In fact without a transponder, testing shoed that the
gear had to be lowered in order for radar to identify its image as a plane.

	Also the older centurions looked good. The planes from the early 70's
looked the best. The gear stance was level unlike the Cardinal, and with the
cantilevered wing, the absence of struts gave it a look of speed and agility.

Peter Barada
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