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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

Lets go back to that time in postwar GA when the sands shifted quickly. You can see other Weick influences, such as the oil-damped tricycle landing gearall produced Cherokees are trikeswith a wide track to make crosswind landings more manageable. There were 23 runway loss of control (RLOC) events. Two came after takeoff.