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John, I am afraid you are still believing ERCO hype 50 years after the fact. If anything, the coupe would have been better if they'd forgotten the thing of making it unspinnable. Most pilots fly planes capable of spinning and they have no trouble. To hear Ercoupe people tell it, spinning a plane is some big mystery that just comes out of the blue. That is not the case and the no-spin thing was an attempt to sell to the non-flying public. Also there are some pilots who believe to this day that there is some magic to turns in the pattern that can cause their plane to spin. Often they have some misunderstanding of the basic physics going on there - I mean that myth keeps going and going. If you get into a troubling situation when landing you can find yourself wishing you had a plane with more control rather than one that is limited because somebody though you couldn't handle it. The Ercoupe has as many worries as any plane. Look at the hard landings and the planes that run off the side of the runway, and also what kind of crash landing speed you will have when the engine quits. It is no big deal. Every plane has its good and bad points. They said when they studied the planes that the Ercoupe was not any safer than other planes of the time. I believe they even presented the study to Fred Weick. I never had anybody tell me that the Ercoupe was a wussy plane. Could it be that this is something that Ercoupers themselves think deep down inside and this is why they are so sensitive? Tailwheel planes are flown a lot in Alaska and if you check out the accidents on some of the makes you will see that a large chunk of the accidents take place in the tough environment. The Ercoupe can hurt you in just as many ways as any other plane - only the details are different. Don't fool yourself into thinking it can't. GW __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 ==^================================================================
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