ThirtyEcho From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 1619 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1057 times:
The Howard 500 is the apex of GA aircraft with recips. Its performance was more like a beefy turboprop or a small turbojet than it was like any recip before or since. I saw one once and the howl of full takeoff power was unreal; more like a whole squadron of B-25s. Too bad that this is the last one flying: