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IT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE SWIFT...
"The identity of a Swift, its personality, is like that of no
other airplane I've flown. I consider mine a close personal
friend..."
Richard Bach -- Aviation Journalist
"I've flown Swifts with engines from eighty-five horsepower to
200 turbocharged horses, and loved every minute in every one of them."
"You walk and you grin because you know that
here is an airplane that's going to fly as good as it looks."
"The Swift is the basis for dreams. If you can
dream it and you can afford it, you can make the Swift do it."
Budd Davisson -- Aviation Journalist
"Reflecting upon its history it is fair to say the januty
"Swift" was a much maligned airplane that didn't deserve its
criticisms, criticisms which were mostly hearsy founded on nothing."
Joseph P. Juptner
Author - U.S. CIVIL AIRCRAFT SERIES
"It's not for everyone -- just those who like
airplanes a lot."
Alton K. Marsh -- Aviation Journalist
"A Swift must be flown with fingertips and toes rather than
hands and feet."
Mark Twombly -- Aviation Journalist
"...the airplane is just dumb a piece of aluminum that requires
that you supply the brain... it also requires that you supply the soul."
Alan Abell -- Swift Owner
“Lady, you want me to answer you if this old Swift is safe to fly?
Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?”
--unknown
"The Swift is a super airplane that is sometimes
flown by pilots who aren't so super..."
Denis Arbeau
Swift 3307K Napa, CA
"It really hurts when someone bends or tears up a Swift because
of something they didn't know or never took the time to learn. They're not
making them anymore and we gotta preserve what's left."
Ed Lloyd
Swift 3856K Austin, TX
...on how Swifts get wrecked during checkouts:
"They installed right hand brakes on it as that was a
contributing factor in the ground loop (the guy with the brakes couldn't fly and
the guy who could fly had no brakes!)."
John Foster
Swift s/n 3660
The "Ya can't win 'em all" department...
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"Not only was the Swift a miserable airplane - I
used to own one so I know - it spent a lot of its time in a heap."
Richard Collins -- FLYING magazine -- Cessna 210 owner
hfmflying@aol.com
"If the C-210 was all I could have to fly, I would probably just
play more golf!"
Charlie Nelson -- President, Internation Swift Association
"Richard Collins hasn't changed his opinion of the Swift, and I
haven't changed my opinion of Richard Collins."
Charlie Nelson -- after exchanging letters with Richard Collins
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