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

 

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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 









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