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together with the r;H3oline, increased tho rross weight of the plane by 340 pounds as the no mol rroas weight of my standard seaplane is 1253 pounds. The only noticeable difference in the performance of the plane with the increased gross weight wnn that, it re'ui red n longer run for the take-off.
Immediately after the take-off, the plane performed &nd climbed well at normal cruising R.P.M's.
To (ro back a few yoars ? I had been op?ratlnf heavier plsne? both for school work and charter work and I bourht :ny first Iii ht airplane in 1934. It took considerable will power on my port to buy this first lipht airplane. I was thoroughly convinced that the light airplane was the thing to operate and make a profit with uurinf the depression, but I was also thoroughly convinced that I would not like to fly the light airplane, and for this reason I bourht my first Aeronca without having flown it and knew that I would have to sell rayself on flying the airplane. This however only required about six or eight hours of flying to prove that the lifht airplane would do anything required by my work that the heavier alrpl?res had been doinr.
Several different times I had had occasion to fly ov<?r Lake ?Pontchartrain and over the Louisiana marshes in exarch of loct persons ? usually fishermen and hunters, ? and this was invariably during bad weather conditions. 0a these fl.Uhts my chief worry ms not from the airplane but the lack of long cruising ranee, and I wanted to prove to ay self on this lonp- distance flight th-.t it was