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How about that! The blade is indeed trapezoidal! The plane I got is rust free and true (I checked the aligments you mentionned, and it was good), but there are some rust spots on the blade, so I stroke the blade on a sharpening stone on it’s side to make sure that the width is consistent, and it helped.
… but I realised something else, at the end of each stroke, I raised the heel of the plane, but sometimes a little too much, in such a manner that the unique skate of the 44 was sinking and making a groove in the soft wood (pine) I’m plowing. So therefore on the next stroke, the skate got stuck.
Correcting those too things helped a lot.
Thanks for you help on this!