History of Aero Commander?

[aworldnervelink]

I've been looking for a good book about the history of Aero Commander... does anyone know of anything? Thanks!

 

[Commander91gm]

I don't know of a book but this site might interest you.

http://www.meyersaircraft.com/

 

[N4590W]

I don't know of a book but this site might interest you.

http://www.meyersaircraft.com/

I've never heard of the Meyers Interceptor 400. That was quite an airplane.

 

[ksandrew]

I did notice no mention of the Commander Lark and the Commander Dart that was produced in Albany Ga. before the 111 and 112 were produced. I remember it so well as I rented a Commander Lark from Commander air service at the airport. Brand new with only three hours on the hobbs. After being checked out I departed Special VFR and was up in the cloud when the instrument panel caught fire. The thought was that we had no radar at Albany airport, I declared an emergency and was immediately given radar vectors all the way to the ground, We had a Naval Air Station about 15 miles away, they were giving me reverse PAR vectors as I was lined up with their runway. Amazing and all ended well, the smoke was still being produced after landing. The fire trucks ended up destroying the plane so I never flew it again...

Life is a barrel of fun.

Ken

 

[Commander91gm]

I've never heard of the Meyers Interceptor 400. That was quite an airplane.

Doug
Myers was purchased by Rockwell with the intent of entering the general aviation market. That plane is actually the predecessor to yours. I was once at an airshow and saw a commander 400 and scratched my head as to what it was. When Rockwell figured out that they couldn't build them cost effectively they developed their own internal product commonly known as the commander 112 and at the time they also built a 111 which never really made it to market.

 

[janderson]

[ the 111 that never got certified ]

 

[carllee]

I've never heard of the Meyers Interceptor 400. That was quite an airplane.

There's one of these based at a small grass strip near me. Absolute Rocket Ship!

Interestingly, there's no compensation worked into the design for asymmetric thrust, so you have to keep the right peddle mashed to the floor on take off. Hard to slow down on approach too.

Cool plane!

 

[Commander91gm]

Pretty cool airplane - I think they still hold some speed records. There was also a version of it that had a turbine and I think it was the first general aviation turbine powered plane that was ever made

 

[plight]

The Myers reminds me of a Navion.