AOPA Pilot Magazine - June 2011 - 78

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SM.1019
Airframe manufacturer SIAI Marchetti
created the SM.1019, a larger, morepowerful
version of the Bird Dog. The
aircraft shown here, N2525M, belongs
to John Schwamm, a real estate
developer from Alaska. “The 1019 is
appealing because it allows you to buy
a turbine-powered airplane for the price
of piston power,” he says. His airplane
was restored by Starr Farmer of White
Wings Aircraft Services in Anchorage.
Schwamm bought it for $200,000.
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USAF Capt. Hilliard A. Wilbanks spotted
a South Vietnamese hillside pockmarked
with camouflaged foxholes that could be
detected only by a trained eye flying low
and slow. The Viet Cong lay in wait, hoping
to ambush an approaching and unsuspecting
South Vietnamese Ranger unit.
With an M-16 rifle as his only weapon,
Wilbanks made repeated passes over the
VC position in an attempt to disrupt the
enemy from springing its trap. Wilbanks
was shot down during this engagement
and was posthumously awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor.
You might recall that the wing flaps on
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early models of the Cessna 172 could be
lowered 40 degrees. Cessna reduced this
to 30 degrees in later models because 40
degrees create so much drag that some
pilots inadvertently get too low and too
slow during a landing approach. Well, the
Bird Dog has 60 degrees of slotted flaps,
and fully extending them is like opening
a pair of barn doors. You get the feeling
that speed brakes have been deployed
and the airplane is stopping in midair.
You need to be serious about getting the
nose down or adding a fistful of throttle
to prevent the L–19 from falling out of the
sky. Should you really want to come down
like a stone, perform a maximum-effort
slip with the flaps fully extended.
Airspeed bleeds rapidly during a land-
ing flare into a three-point attitude with
full flaps, so be sure to carry an adequate
reserve of airspeed with which to flare.
Most Bird Dog pilots land with a flap setting
of only 30 or 40 degrees. The spring
landing gear makes wheel landings
challenging, as it does on single-engine
Cessna taildraggers with similar landing
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