My theory is pretty straight forward. Read anything that Richard Collins wrote about the Ercoupe and it was always negative. He does not like the airplane. I do not know what his father said about it, but I believe Richard's comments are a big part of what sticks in the heads of the editors at Flying...
It would be good to do a Chi Square Analysis or some other powerful statistical test for significance to see how the Cessna 150, Luiscombe 8A, Cirrus and others stack uo in comparison to one another... If I have some time, I will work on pulling the data from NTSB database and data on registrations over some period of time. A scientific answer would be better than what one person has to say on the subject. John On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Coons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Many early accidents were caused by over promoting the Ercoupe. I have > heard that some dealers were doing crazy things close to the ground to > prove how safe it was. Once they found out you could get killed, I > believe things changed, but it took a while. > > " LOOK MA, NO HANDS." > > Bill Coons > >
