Originally posted by miko2d:
But you do not need 2-mile long concrete runway to fly Cessna. Unless you can fly it from a major airport, that $60.000 is paid for a fancy oversize paperweight!
miko
I doubt it takes that much concrete to get in the air. I can't absolutely vouch for these specs, but they seem reasonable; ! 1700' takeoff roll and a ~2500' landing roll. It's only an 1100 pound airplane with 5,952 lb static thrust with a decent wing.
..and try to get THOSE speeds and climb rates out of a Cessna spam can.
Like I said, it's a lot of performance and technology for $60K.
Trouble is, unless you won a Lotto you're only going to be flying it to, at and from airshows that are providing free gas.
http://www.planet.fi/~mohman/model/mig15.html "Specifications: Span, 10.08 m (33 ft 1 in); overall lenght, 10.11 m (33 ft 2 in); fuselage lenght, 8.08 m (26 ft 6.1 in); height, 3.7 m (12 ft 1.7 in); wheel track, 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in); wheel base, 3.17 m (10 ft 5 in);
wing area, 20.6 m&sop3 (221.7 sq ft); empty weight, 3724 kg (8208 lb);
takeoff weight, 4850 kg (10690 lb); takeoff weight with two 300-l (79-US gal) auxiliary tanks, 5400 kg (11900 lb); fuel 900 kg (1984 lb); useful load (fuel, ammunition, crew), 1588 kg (3500 lb); max operating limit load factor, 8.
Performance:
max speed, 1015 km/h at 3000 m (548 kt at 9840 ft); 720 km/h at 13000 m (389 kt at 42640 ft); max Mach number, 0.894;
climb to 3000 m (9840 ft) in 1.5 min; to 5000 m (16400 ft) in 2.6 min; to 10000 m (32800 ft) in 6.8 min; service ceiling, 14625 m (47970 ft); landing speed, 172 km/h (93 kt); range, 680 km at 5000 m (422 mi at 16400 ft); 950 km at 10000 m (590 mi at 32800 ft); range with two 300-l (79-US gal) auxiliary tanks, 1054 km at 5000 m (655 mi at 16400 ft), 1500 km at 10000 m (930 mi at 32800 ft);
takeoff roll, 510 m (1675 ft); landing roll, 740 m (2425 ft)."
Jeez.. I'm actually thinking about trading off the PT... be a minor price differential. Hmmm.... .9 mach... hmmmmm
[ 08-28-2001: Message edited by: Toad ]
