Steve: Do you have the split tail feathers, and 9 or 13 degree uptravel? Fred W's comments about unacceptable behavior with more uptravel, may have referred to a sharper stall, but it sure would help with take-off and landing attitudes. When you can change the attitude of the wing, it's like extending the flaps causing quicker rotations, and smoother slower landings. But one still has to lower the nose after lift-off. That is only safe operation in ANY aircraft.
And Harry: The active phrase is" if the tail is up where it belongs". It certainly made all the difference in the world when I raised ours. We were about 13" low. The coupe was designed with a high power line. With the tail out of geometry, the thrust line is destroyed and both take-offs and landings are critically altered, which makes all of this discussion academic if our Coupes are out of geometry. Adding the dual fork usually causes the tail to droop, as well as worn bungies or rubber absorbers. Right on, my man!!!! Don,t have the book in front of me, but on level ground, (tarmac) the tail should be 6'3" to the top of the vertical. (I think) I guess you can all tell I have more time on my hands today than I know what to do with, so I think I'll give us all a rest....Whew!!! Doug
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