Anybody ever fly a Rawdon?

[Rally]

Anybody here ever fly a Rawdon? Theres only a few of them left. I need to ferry one and would kinda like a heads up to how they fly before doing so. What else can you tell me about them?

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

This guy used to annoy people in one, too bad he checked out

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=42391

 

[crash-proof]

Not that it matters but...it was actually an Ag-cat that was used for the smoke signs..
I'd seen that Rawdon at Perry before, it looked kinda like a PT-22 with a continental motor.

 

[Lead Sled]

Anybody here ever fly a Rawdon? Theres only a few of them left. I need to ferry one and would kinda like a heads up to how they fly before doing so. What else can you tell me about them?

I flew one about 20 years ago. It belonged to an Ag operator out west. A buddy of mine worked for the company and got to fly it for gas. I don't remember too much about it other than it was hell-bent for stout - it was rated at something like plus/minus 12 Gs. As I remember, it was designed to compete in the military trainer competition that was awarded to the T-34 back in the 50's. It had a 150 hp Lycoming. There was nothing remarkable about flying it. I doubt if you'd have any problem if you were current in a Super Cub. We used to go up an throw rolls of toilet paper out of it and chase them as they streamed down. It was as much fun as you can have in an airplane. Like you said, they didn't make very many of them - I'd be curious to know what tail number you're flying. I flew N44505.

'Sled

 

[Rally]

Evidently made it to a museum.



http://www.landings.com/evird.acgi?pass=67991453&ref=-&mtd=41&cgi=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fnph-search_nnr&var=0&buf=66&src=_landings%2Fpages%2Fsearch_nnr.html&nnumber=44505

 

[LearAv8r]

2706D is the one that just crashed. I flew that one many times and am sorry to see what happened. The Rawdon was built by two brothers and was a two place Korean war trainer. I believe that only a handful were built (26?). I believe that 2706D was a two place trainer originally. The rear seat was taken out and a tank was put in for smoke oil. If you were going to sky write there were two valves under the seat you had to turn and the on the left knee area was a on/off switch. I think that one had a 260hp when I flew it. One thing I remember about it was when you were one the ground you could see some slight ripples in the upper skin on the wing. When you were airborne they smoothed out and it was a joy to fly. Handled like a cub from what I remember. Sorry to hear about Jim.


Hope that helps ya, it has been about ten years since i flew it.

Lear-