Antoni Deighton

Actually it was an email from Delta Aviation, but this links is to the Mooney website: http://www.mooney.com/en/AcclaimUltra.html Anyone got more info? Looks very cool to me!

Surely the other (earlier) link in the chain would have been trying to replace the windows in your F model while flying? ;-) (just kidding)

The Mooney still has a stronger appeal for me though. I just hope I fit ;-)

Wishboneash, I'd love to take you up on your offer. Let me know next time you're headed my way. You can email or PM me if you'd prefer. (ad8n [at] gte [dot] net) Causoam, yes you're right. It has a wooden wing and spar with a tube and fabric fuselage. I'm located in the Los Angeles area and fortunately one of the marque experts is right by me in Santa Paula. The plane would need to be hangared (I've been on the waiting lists at CMA and OXR for several years!) but ultimately I'd prefer to hangar whatever I end up flying.

After over a decade of renting I'm finally looking for my own airplane. My mission has narrowed the search to a Mooney M20J or Bellanca Super Viking. I'm normally fly out of Camarillo, but can easily get to OXR, VNY, etc. If anyone is interested in giving me a ride so that I can get a better idea of how the airplane flies I would very much appreciate it. It goes without say that I will of course: Pay for gas Buy you lunch (Camarillo is home to The Waypoint Cafe!) Thanks! Antoni Deighton

As someone who is in the market for a Mooney, I have NO problem with you posting here! I've heard nothing but good things about AAA and would be more than happy if I bought my airplane from you through a posting on this site.

If you read the TSA website (and AOPA's clarification), it says it's only necessary for initial private applicants and not required for recurrent training or additional certifications or ratings. What am I missing?

Great story and great pictures! Those B-17 survival stories are part of the reason I prefer to travel on Boeing airliners rather than a Scarebus! Looking at the photos, though, I would suggest that the bomber returned to North Africa rather than crossing the Channel to Britain. The pix of it on the ground look like no part of England I've ever seen, especially East Anglia where the bases were. Perhaps that little "deception" to the story is why the censors allowed it to go through?

Count me in too (and I don't even have a Mooney currently!)

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John, I agree with you 100%. If you go back and look at my earlier post, you will see that I mentioned financing as one of the variables. Antoni

Quote: allsmiles It's not easy but needs to happen! I don't want to increase the pool of airplane (Mooney) owners. I want owners who can afford the luxury and priviledge of aircraft ownership. Let me ask you something, driving down the highway how many 911's do you see? How many Toyota Camries? What's the difference? More people can afford a Camry but you don't see Porsche lowering prices to sell more do you? What makes you think a Mooney should be any different?

Allsmiles - It's not as easy as that. First of all, sellers are as different as the airplanes they are selling. Some own their airplanes outright, while others are paying them off. Some need the cash, while others can afford to wait. Sometimes the market is flooded with aircraft and buyers have a wide choice of planes thus lowering prices, and at other times airplanes are scarce and people will pay a premium to have it now. Simply holding out for the right price is not a realistic answer to a very complicated set of decisions. As for Lycoming, well they have the advantage that they are selling a product. By and large, one factory IO360 certified to fit in a Mooney 201 is much like another off the Lycoming production line. If you have decided a factory engine is what you need, you have but one supplier. If you want to increase the prices of used airplanes and reduce the prices of engines (and possibly new airplanes as well), you need to dramatically increase the pool of airplane owners. That means increasing the number of pilots. If you have a solution to that problem, then please share it with us. Unfortunately the market that existed in the late seventies with new Cessnas costing just double the price of a good car (about $80K in today's money) are long gone, along with the pilots that fueled it.

Follow the links, especially the Mike Busch videos, mentioned in this thread: http://www.mooneyspace.com/index.cfm?mainaction=posts&forumid=2&threadid=5457&postid=&page=1#post Lots of great information about our engines, and how to operate them.