Air-to-Air Twin Navion

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Jack Fleetwood
I had to sit on this one for a few weeks, waiting for the latest issue of Twin and Turbine to come out!

When Troy reached out to me for a photoshoot, we had a few time constraints and my normal photo pilot wasn't available. Troy mentioned that if I came up to Possum Kingdom, TX he had a photo pilot I could use. Hmm... maybe, but who is this guy and what is his experience level? David Martin, the airshow pilot you might have seen doing aerobatics in his Baron (or Bucker, or Cap, or...) Ok, he'll do!

Anyway, fun photo shoot and a beautiful, rare airplane. Very cool!

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I dig it.
The plane looks like the result of a straight tail Cessna 310 and a Navion bumping uglies. Reminds me of an A-37 Tweet too.
 
baboss said:
I dig it.
The plane looks like the result of a straight tail Cessna 310 and a Navion bumping uglies. Reminds me of an A-37 Tweet too.
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The tail on the D-16 is made out of Navion horizontal stabilizer. All twin Navions started as singles and were modified by Temco or Camair. The original Navion rudder isn't big enough to counter the single-engine adverse yaw, so they had to put a bigger one on.

The Camair twins took a different strategy. They took the existing Navion tail design and just scaled it up larger.
 
Beautiful pictures, as usual!

I did notice (not your doing, Jack) that the tagline of Twin and Turbine is "For the pilots of owner-flown, cabin-class aircraft", and a Twin Navion is certainly not a cabin-class aircraft. So it seemed like an odd choice for the magazine.

However, I don't subscribe, so do they actually limit it to cabin class, or do they have articles about 310s, Barons, Senecas, etc., too? (Where a Twin Navion would fit in with.)
 
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