Vintage Aircraft Association

Flew a taylorcraft once. Only things electric were two magnetos and a flashlight.

Wonder how they really flew

Bev McLain

All the people in those drawings were about 4'6"and 75lbs.

I love the 170, it gave me great satisfaction on my first flight trips and great load capacity for camping

They'll all be deaf when they get there too. They should have shown the cockpit full of smoke - you know that all four of the little guys would be smoking.

Lovely old cessna I used to fly a 175 great airplanes

It was early 1972. I was a new pilot and reported for basic training at Fort Ord. First chance I went out to the army airfield to check out the flying club. They had two Cessna 190 or 195s. I looked into the cockpit and totally chickened out. They seemed huge! Instead I checked out in the Beech Musketeer, which I often flew.

I bet we'd have flying cars by now if people would stop saying "I know my car" when that low fuel light comes on.

Amazing how roomy the images show the interior. Somehow mine must have shrunk over the years or people in those days where much smaller. A C172 is best described as cozy 😂

I used to fly in a fedora but my headset kept crushing it..

Back when a standard adult weight was 160 lbs!

4 people in a 170 with full fuel would be over loaded. Nice wishful thinking

My dad had one. Nice plane. He went from it to a Cherokee 140 (garbage) to a Mooney Ranger (Zoom!)

Just like now I have to ask Who had the money to own an aircraft back then. Sure wasn't me! I got my license and then found it hard to afford to rent one for nothing but making a few circuits around the local patch. Much less owning one.

I have a '46 C-140 for 30 years, got my private in college in it.. I had no idea it had "Patented Saftey Landing Gear". I feel so much 'safer' now.

Marketed as a corporate plane, 1953. 5 cents a mile.

Great airplane--spent many an hour in one with Dad!

Wide doors and seats for who a 5 year old 😂 Even back then salesman were liars

Back when people my age could afford a home and an airplane and there wasn’t too much red tape and fees to keep your average self made man out of the pilots seat. Hell today even getting a commercial drivers license is like getting a degree from a university. I work on aircraft for a living that I can’t afford a ticket as a passenger on or have a realistic path of becoming an operator of. #irony

Great issue!

Love this. I bet they're not taking off with full fuel, though, and really not doing it from Salt Lake or Denver.

Wonderful airplane!, N4634C 1953 170B has been in the family since 1968 when I outgrew the baggage area in Dads 140

Ah yes, before loud engines came about and you needed headsets. What a time to be alive!

Very ambitious with the 140 mph numbers weren't they? 😅😅

"Family car of the Air". Me thinks more than a few people back then found that maintaining straight and level flight was a lot harder compared to driving a car along a road ;-).

I had most of my meager flying hours in the Cessna 140, 150 and 170s, safest airplanes to learn in.

Well, it's pretty simple. Not quite as simple as car. I'm guessing plenty of 16 to 60 year olds could learn to fly it, though.

They didn't do this for Stinson, why?

Absolutely EXCELLENT deals!