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To: doug from upland

Ryan PT-22, engine issues is my guess....


38 posted on 03/05/2015 3:48:05 PM PST by taildragger (It's Cruz, Pence, or Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: taildragger

Thanks for the ID, very cool plane.


45 posted on 03/05/2015 3:50:15 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: taildragger
Ryan PT-22, engine issues is my guess....

Given the amount of money he has, shouldn't he have had the engine completely overhauled, with new parts machined from scratch, if necessary? Or do these guys get a kick out of the pilot's equivalent of Russian roulette?

58 posted on 03/05/2015 3:54:14 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: taildragger

That’s what I thought-it looked like a PT-22. I read somewhere they were notoriously hard to fly.


71 posted on 03/05/2015 4:00:20 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: taildragger
Ryan PT-22, engine issues is my guess....

My Dad learned to fly in a PT-19 Cadet? Had an inverted straight 6. Not a radial engine like this one...

164 posted on 03/05/2015 5:10:06 PM PST by Antoninus II
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