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Hi,
I'd like
to introduce myself (Jeff Gacek) and my friend Chip Andrews. We are both new
first time owners of an Ercoupe airplane. Chip and I have flown together for
the last couple years in Hornet Experimental. We sold our planes in
September and each purchased a 46 Ercoupe 415-C in October. We're having a
gas flying these coupes.
I almost bought an Ercoupe from Jim Phelps in
2002. I had a contract with him to purchase his plane but he asked me to let
him out of it because he change his mind. So I did. Chip had an Challenger
experimental at the time and ended up talking me into buying and
experimental plane so that we could fly together. It was fun, but we had to
do much of our flying in the early morning or early evening because we would
get bounced around so much in these light planes.
We've always talked about the Ercoupe and how
much we like the plane. If fact this summer, Chip got the bug. He kept
saying, "Let's sell these planes and get a coupe". I just brushed him off.
But you can only do that for so long with Chip. Finally, I got the bug...
again.
So, the chase was on. We began looking for two
coupes as close to home as possible. I've always felt the best coupes sold
word of mouth rather than through ads so we started networking and
eventually found two different coupes right here in Minnesota that we
bought. We are now learning everything we can about these planes (in fact I
feel like a sponge just soaking it all in) and are having a lot of
fun.
I'd like to thank some people who helped me back
in 2002 with my attempted Ercoupe purchase. You guys may not remember me but
I really appreciated the emails and phone calls during that time. The seeds
you planted were not in vane, they just took a while to blossom. Thanks to
Syd Cohen, Ed Burkhead, Jan Zanutto, Greg Bullough. You're help was
appreciated.
I look forward each day to get the emails off of
the flyin and tech lists, so keep it up, it's a great way to learn about the
coupe. Maybe some day I'll be able to contribute to the
discussion.
Thanks again
Jeffrey Gacek
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