The reason for the allowable weight of 1430 is because it is dual use and is being equated to the dual use of an amphibian which has an LSA weight limit of 1430. That is if I remember correctly from the articles that have been in various flying magazines. Probably had a good lobbyist helping them get it approved. If we would come up with the funding to pay a good lobbyist we might get the complete Ercoupe fleet approved for LSA, but I doubt that either of those will happen.
Andy _____ From: ercoupe-flyin@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ercoupe-fl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Craparo Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:31 PM To: ercoupe-flyin@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ercoupe-flyin] Terrafugia!! Richard, While this is heartening, I do not believe the FAA will budge on an aircraft with a standard type certificate. But we can hope... John On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Richard Wilkens <gro...@frontier.net> wrote: Here is an interesting bit. For those of you who did not watch Keith Olbermann tonight the FAA just throw some hope out there for the model D's and above crowd. The Terrafuaia, a car/plane, has a gross weight of 1430 pounds and is LSA, a 110 over LSA. I think he is on again tonight on MS-NBC. The thing I like better is an automatic folding wing arrangement. If we could get someone to adopted that to a Coupe, we could have a practical folding wing system, and not one that requires an AP to lock the wings. Richard NC99904
