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RE: the C150...
One tried to go IFR, east out of SLC one summer night; well, actually 3 nights (around 0200) in a row. The minimum altitude for the airway was, IIRC 11600. The highest he could get was something like 11200, and then only for a couple of minutes. After the aforementioned 3 nights, he decided to go VFR and finally made it over the mountains. This was in the early 80's and Cessna has probably increased the 150's power.
I liked the dichotomy of Cessna's jets. The C500 is known as the flying roadblock and the C750 was one of the fastest kids on the block! I made the mistake in my very early tower career of having a C500 slow to his minimum approach speed as I wanted to get a departure out ahead of him. Wasn't a mile or so later I looked and his ground speed was something like 85kts! I told my instructor I thought a C500 was a jet (certainly looked like a jet out the window)?? He told me that my instruction turned a jet into a single-engined prop-job! I learned a LOT from that instructor! In my job, I learned that knowing aircraft performance was of vital importance.
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