With a side-to-side sashay of the panel as the Jake turns over and comes to life, so does the Cessna 195. The conveyance of choice for legendary Cessna Aircraft Company president Dwane Wallace back in the 1950s, the 195 lives on through a persistent confluence of capability and flair, with a tinge of nostalgia thrown in. And throughout 2022, its aficionados have celebrated the 75 years since it first took flight in Wichita, Kansas. The Cessna 190 and 195 models were born from a desire to serve the business traveler of the post-World War Ⅱ era with a moderately fast single that could take advantage of the state-of-the-art radial engines of the time-and carry a family or a couple of colleagues in comfort in a sedan-like cabin. The models were launched concurrently and shared a production line, but the 190s were produced with a 240 hp, seven- cylinder Continental W670-23, while the 195s came out of the factory with the 300 hp Jacobs R755-A2-and later the 275 hp Jacobs R755-B2-making use of war-surplus Jakes the company could readily obtain. True to an engineering choice that courses through most Cessna high-wing designs, the 190/195 series used an unmodified 2412 airfoil from root to tip like its progenitor, the Cessna C-37 Airmaster, whereas other models born a few years later (like the 172, 182, and 206) used a modification on the base airfoil at the tip-a "camber cuff"-added to mimic the effects of a popular STOL mod in the 1970s.
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