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Again Glen, I agree with you most of what you are saying. The
bad mouthing was done 50 years ago. And as you say any airplane will bite
your Butt if given the change.
Just look at the Salvage pages. The numbers are there. The
lack
of fuel. Lose of control take off and landing. The last Coupe as you
pointed
out, was lost control on landing. (to low to slow) You can say that about
flying into Terra Firma.
But you will never see an Ercoupe that spun in. Spinning at
4-5000 is not the same as spinning at 4-500 hundred or lower.
Not many walk away from a low spin. And that is fact and no BS. Read the
accident reports on fatal Ercoupe wrecks. W
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From: Glen Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:35 PM
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Subject: RE: [COUPERS] Pride & Prejudice
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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
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