Right- - - -the landing checklist on the Aeronca Champ my friend and I used to fly included "carb heat on"- - - -I didn't think about the power loss on takeoff. I believe that one ran a 65 HP Continental 4-cylinder. Those engines had a nasty habit of seizing up a piston on climb-out, so getting up to a safe altitude always increased the pucker factor a little!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!