I owned my ercoupe for quite a number of years and put hundreds of hours in it. The limited elevator was but apart of it. The controls were another very big part of it. Also there were no springs between them. There was a mixing bellcrank under the baggage bag. It was all hard connected with rod end bearings and had a very specific rigging procedure. I completely rebuilt mine in about 1986. It had a lot of dihedral and was capable of a lot of crosswind. Very easy to land, but still a lot of fun.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Larry&Sallie Flesner <flesner at frontier.com> wrote: > At 01:03 PM 1/31/2014, you wrote: >> but the 'coupe had spring-mediated control linkage between the rudder and >> ailerons which provided automatic control coordination. This worked very >> well to prevent the cross-control stall problem, but made crabbing into a >> cross wind and slipping more difficult...not impossible. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > The cross-control stall was eliminated by limiting elevator travel so you > could not stall the main wing, not through interconnected controls. The > Tripacer has interconnected aileron and rudder also but it will stall because > of greater elevator limits. The Tripacer controls are spring connected so > you can override either control with the other. Because you have no > independent rudder in an Ercoupe, you can't slip and must land in a crab in a > crosswind landing. The gear is beefed up to handle greater side loads. > Because it has tricycle gear, it straightens itself out from a crabbed > touchdown. Nice ideas for safety but basically makes it a mini van for sport > flying. :-) It really seams "unnatural" to drive an Ercoupe down the taxi > way using the control wheel, just like in a car. It just ain't > right........... > > Larry Flesner > P.S. I seem to recall that if you got your license in a two control Ercoupe, > you were not licensed to fly a three control without further training / sign > off / etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
