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To: fireman15

Yep. There’s a Reason the Beachcraft Bonanza is called “The Fork Tailed Doctor Killer”.


76 posted on 04/19/2020 3:42:37 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: CrazyIvan
There’s a Reason the Beachcraft Bonanza is called “The Fork Tailed Doctor Killer”.

Yes, I have heard that nickname as well. To be kind... Beachcraft have traditionally been the Cadillacs of General Aviation aircraft, where Mooney's are more like the sports cars.

We live on a small airport...he neighbor two doors down has a Bonanza that he never flies, because he has gotten too old to handle it. Our next-door neighbor has a tricked out Mooney, with a powerful engine and speed brakes. We have obstructions, he has to do a dog leg and skim the trees to get it on the ground half way down the runway. When he had a Warrior, he flew it all the time. But the one time I went flying with him he was white knuckling the Mooney and he hardly ever takes it out after spending over $200,000 on it.

81 posted on 04/19/2020 11:23:13 PM PDT by fireman15
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