Clearance Ground Effect Tail 
Flight Training Central
MAY 6, 2024
Then in 1956 Cessna moved the tail-wheel on the 170 to the nose and the resulting high wing 172, with well over 40,000 copies, became the best-selling civilian aircraft in history. On the ground they offer clearance over many fences. Why the success of high wings?
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. Otherwise the traditional high-wing, twin-engine flying boat layout suggested itself on practical grounds. The plane will fly itself off.
Photographic Logbook
JANUARY 25, 2025
More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! Syracuse advised of lake effect snow creating a wall between us and Sodus. Gilead and I, both trailing Ed, ran into dramatically lowering visibility and requested pop-up IFR clearances. The Globe Swift taxied for departure while flashing us its distinctively toothy grin.
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