Lightly loaded AgCats get off quick. But early one summer morning I watched one use all the asphalt runway and most of the grass over run on the end before his wheels lifted off. From the sound of that PW radial up front it was wound up!
We watched him run off down onto the dew laden grass where he looked more like an Offshore racing boat than a plane with the rooster tail his wheels were kicking up! He was overloaded and the combination of heat, humidity, gross weight and little wind kept him rolling longer than usual. Once he got airborne and headed out to his job location he never got higher than 30 or 40 feet while flying past some old oak trees. They're not the prettiest planes on the ramp, but they're ballerinas in the air. Its my all time favorite airplane. And to hear two of those old PW powered AgCats in close formation going over sends chills up my spine.
I've drawn up plans for an RC model AgCat and one day it will fly.