----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]----At 08:36 PM 2/5/01 +0000, you wrote:
Has anyone ever tryed to build flaps in to an ercoupe? I think it could and should be done and any info would be helpful.
No one has, so far as I know. The Ercoupe was designed specifically without them. They change the wing angle of attack
in such a way as to make it stall-able again.
And i continue to think retratable gear is the only way to go, after all these years why only a hanful of people have been willing to give up all that drag is beyond me or is it Ercoupe owners are just plane cheep and uncreative?
Yeah, we're not made of money. But I do know where the only certified, RETRACTABLE Ercoupe is. It is for sale, if you are
interested.
I can't belive how crumy and tired most coupes look. There is one I always cringe when I walk by it on the west end of Evergreen airport,Wa.
The one that used to sit abandoned there has gone to a good home in the Salem area. The one that is there now looks pretty good.
I would take umbage, but mine is on the east side, kinda toward the middle of Evergreen.
Never seen it fly, just sits there with grass growing under it. That seems to be the reality and care given by most coupe owners.
Again, most of us are not independently wealthy. "Work, the curse of the flying class." I'd just love to spend the day futzing with
my Ercoupe - either in the swell summer sunshine, or in my heated hangar. "The reality" is that I have a wife who demands some
money for the house and her ferrets!
Percy in Portland
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